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Women’s private parts seem more robust and can take a hard pounding. They even have to endure giving birth – which isn’t easy, I’ve been told. So, why would you ask me to grow a sensitive, fragile body part and not a tough one like a
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“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one. If you’re absent you’re committing one big mistake, but if you’re present the whole time you commit a million tiny ones, and teenagers keep a count. Oh, how they keep a count.”
― The Winners
― The Winners

“We all have a hundred fake personalities depending upon who we’re with. We pretend and dissemble and stifle ourselves just to fit in.”
― The Winners
― The Winners

“Her voice like a bright, clear window of sky. Her face a field of freckles. He thinks: I don't want to let you go.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

“To you who talk too much and sing too loud and cry too often and love something in life more than you should.”
― The Winners
― The Winners

“Tucked between the last two pages, she finds an old sealed envelope. He has written For Frederick across the front. Frederick: the bunkmate Werner used to write about, the boy who loved birds. He sees what other people don’t. What the war did to dreamers.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

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