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‘“I think you thought you would know what you wanted when he gave it to you.I think you saw him as a solution. I think that’s why you came here, so he could tell you what your life should be. And now he has, and you don’t like it, and you don’t know what do do with that, “ Adam said.’

‘People ruined things with talking, she felt. Why did everyone need to discuss everything all the time anyway?’

‘Rachel looked at India with pity, sure the people around her were looking at her with envy. How condescending of her, how simplistic, to think she, her life, was the object of envy, the center of other people’s thoughts.’

‘People were supposed to things for themselves, not depend on other people to do them for them. Yo do for one’s self, to be independent, was virtuous, ideal. But here it wasn’t. Here she was the wrong one, and she loathed it, to the depths of her being. She hated the way it worked, and she hated the way it made her wrong. ‘