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“And it’s not just that. There is a further problem with unconditional love, isn’t there? Because what if … you don’t love yourself? What if you obsess over your flaws and weaknesses, you constantly update the balance sheet of your own personality and find it wanting?”

“…but, really, unconditional love has a huge flaw. If you love me, no matter what, who I actually am doesn’t matter. If someone loves your essence, you’re very being, what can you do to make them love you more or love you less? Nothing; there is no space.”

“There’s something about that relationship, something about being a child, and the need of a child to be an individual, to be something more than the things she’s been taught, and the way she’s been raised.”

Lord Townes nods. “How do bankers make their money?”
Joyce has often wondered. Ron once told her, but he becomes quite hard to follow the angrier he gets.

“But then the computers all started talking to each other, and, before you knew it, your phone started talking to your computer, and your fridge started talking to your phone, and you willingly paid for a device that recorded everything you said and sent it to a server farm in the middle of the Nevada desert, just because it was easier than switching the radio on by yourself.”