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“I learned that anyone could have hidden royal blood or a secret inheritance. There was a chance this
wasn’t my real life. It was possible I was the victim of an elaborate case of mistaken identity, and I wasn’t supposed to
be stuck in this cluttered attic all alone. If I just met the right man, he would show me who I was supposed to be.”

“the devil’s wise because he’s old, not because he’s the devil”

“Annie can withstand all and any of his moods during the day because at night, she has his books.”

“Leaving him is not an option. She has no friends. She can’t access the internet for new ideas. She gazes outside and pauses,
dish in hand.”

“Doug has cemented himself into this stagnant, brooding, empty version of himself, and her good behavior has
no impact on him.”

“He does not quit his job or buy a boat or do anything different in light of the huge sums of money he was paid for her intellect.”

“She wishes she had not identified her unhappiness. Being unhappy implies that she has a capacity to be happy, but she does not have the right to be happy.”

“But she feels moods, she realizes. Dark ones, from petty to vicious.

Her feet stop on the bicycle.

I am unhappy, she thinks.

It is a new awareness quite apart from the urgency and anxiety she feels about displeasing D”

“I like being me. I want to stay alive.”

“You’re not exactly alive, though. Are you?”

“Before,
she was more playful, but he seems to relish now when she’s twisted up inside, repentant.”

“Actually, it’s probably best she can’t talk to anybody. Nobody has to know how bad she is. Besides, the person she most wants
to talk to is Doug. That’s the worst of it. She misses him.”

“Tammy said Annie was a top performer. It would be exciting to be featured in a Borgo article. An honor, actually. But it will never happen. Doug will never allow it. No one will ever know about her and all
she’s learned.”

Look at you,” he says. “Are you afraid of me?”
She takes half a step back.
Answer me,” he says.

“Yes.”

“Why? What do you think I’d do to you?”

“I don’t know. Something bad.”

“‘Something bad,’” he says, mimicking her. “Have I ever hit you? Would I ever?”

She shakes her head. “No.”

“Doug likes her thin, so it has never occurred to her that he might enjoy seeing her
with an appetite.”

“I don’t want to go off,” Annie says. “I don’t want to change. I like my body the way it is.”

Tammy looks doubtful. “I mean, you just heard him approve the changes. You don’t want to displease him, do you?”

This book already made me have a conversation with my boyfriend about arguments at night

“Does it ever bother you that you’re a sex toy?”

Excerpt from
Annie Bot
Sierra Greer
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“His inexplicable displeasure is real to her, a 7 out of 10. It is, in fact, intolerable. She will not be able to shift to
sleep mode until she has developed and prioritized five ways to address it. Until then, she will remain acutely unbalanced,
churning through her battery.”

“She’s still feeling puzzled, distracted, vicariously lost, but that’s clearly turning him on.”

She mimics a monotone robot.
“You never sounded like that.”
“I’m sure I did, thank you. I have no delusions about where I come from.”

“Fate strikes like lightning in a heat wave. When we least expect it, having relaxed into living, when we’re no longer paying attention. We trip over it, unprepared, unable to brace ourselves in time. The second it’s happened, it’s already too late to retrace our steps and undo it”

“There are moments in our lives too good to be true. That doesn’t mean to say they’re perfect, because perfection is subjective and entirely dependent upon where your baseline was to begin with”