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“ There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school. ”

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A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

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I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

The Indians did not like to see anything odd -- a white squirrel, for instance. . . . They thought such oddities were messages, were omens of evil. . . . And the Indians put a great deal of faith in dreams.

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