

“She escaped into book and movies and music.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love

“That’s all I’ve ever wanted. Good humor and good friends. Wisdom and humility. Confidence. Bravery. An unlabored sense of self. So why was I freaking out now that I’d finally started making some of it real? Somewhere in my young adult life, patriarchal snipers must have hacked into the most sacred and high-security part of my system without my knowledge and tried to rewire me. To make me believe that life would only be meaningful—that I would only be powerful—as a twenty-something.”
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

“was in over my head with adulthood and about my total inability to ring anyone and ask for help.”
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

“You don’t have a choice. You move forward or you go under.”
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir

“Things will change more radically than you could ever imagine. Things will end up 300 miles north of your wildest predictions. Healthy people drop dead in supermarket queues. The future love of your life could be the man sitting next to you on the bus. Your secondary school math teacher and rugby coach might now go by the name of Susan. Everything will change. And it could happen any morning.”
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
― Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
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