How dare she be anything he was annoyed with her for not being?

“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be…”

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will n…”

“I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transpo…”

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to …”