Chucking her under her chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

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Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

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Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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What was interesting about being the needy one was how much in love you felt...He'd lost the ability to be an asshole. Now he was smitten, and it felt both tremendous and scary.

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Though the weather was cool, the beach at Herringsdorf was dotted with quite a few diehard nudists. Primarily men, they lay walrus-like on towels or boosterously congregated.

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A sniper is cowardly, sneaky; he kills from a distance, unseen.

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And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for law school. Others became journalists.

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A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

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It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another.

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She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.

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