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(she didn’t mind throwing her laundry in the machine—it was folding and then reuniting those items with her dresser drawers that made her want to shrivel with agonized boredom).
“Everything involves a risk of death. Life’s the most dangerous game show there is.”
But math was the light that made everything clear. Because what’s luck except probability in action?”
“If you want to earn a woman’s love at some point in your life, you must first understand her rage,”
Maxine had already learned from many, many failed dating attempts that she was the kind of woman who was easy to become infatuated with, but impossible to fall in love with. No one ever wanted all of her.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, crying has always been a sign we are alive,’” Helen quoted. “Ms. Charlotte Brontë had no tolerance for the patriarchal view that intelligence and emotionality are distinct and oppositional concepts.
