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Not me tearing up at Dr Mason being the only sympathetic person towards Elizabeth 🥺

I like how one chapter ended talking about Calvin and Elizabeth’s past traumas, and the next chapter starts with how they continue to be treated unfairly by their peers bc they appear to be blessed 🙃

“It’s one thing to be brilliant, but to be brilliant without opportunity - that was something else. If Mozart had been born to a poor family instead of a cultured one, would he have composed Symphony no 36 in C?

“…while we may be born into families, it doesn’t necessarily mean we belong to them.”

“…raised on a steady diet of sorrow…”

“… she’d refused dates from all of them, even the single men.”

“…she didn’t like the notion that systems had to be outsmarted. Why couldn’t they just be smart in the first place?”