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Millard didn’t lack feeling; he just wasn’t good at minding the feelings of others.
“Well, then. I shall endeavor to be fully dressed at all times, lest anyone be made uncomfortable by basic facts of biology.”
“Until they have traveled, even the most educated person is ignorant.
“Our blood relationships often don’t survive the truth,”
Learning how to negotiate a world of people who can’t understand you and don’t want to—that’s probably the hardest bit.
“I thought I’d never understand boys,” said Bronwyn, shaking her head. “But now I think I’ve got it. They’re all idiots!”
All my life, normal people had mostly baffled me—the ridiculous ways they strove to impress one another, the mediocre goals that seemed to drive them, the banality of their dreams. The way people rejected anything that didn’t fit their narrow paradigm of acceptability, as if those who thought or acted or dressed or dreamed differently from them were a threat to their very existence.
