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  1. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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  2. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    Then I thought of how my life at Ault was a series of interactions and avoidance of interactions in which I pretended not to mind that I was almost always by myself. I could not last for long this way, certainly not for the next three years; I'd been at Ault only seven months, and already, my loneliness felt physically exhausting.
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  3. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    reason to do anything other than bypass and ignore. And
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  4. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    Sure, I believed the worst of myself but - not really. I was always waiting to be proven wrong.
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  5. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.
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  6. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    I've never tried to assert my views unless they are self-evident, not reliant on an argument from me to prove or disprove them: Breast-cancer awareness and AIDS prevention are good. Illiteracy is bad. Historic preservation will allow future generations to understand what life used to be like and in so doing will help Americans chart a path forward. The issues and decisions that are more complex I have left to others, to those confident of their own rightness.
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  7. Curtis Sittenfeld _ You Think It, I'll Say It

    I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine ever running out of things to say.
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  8. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    Dispatches and warnings from this side of the fame fence tend to go ignored, dismissed as either whining or false modesty; if they weren't ignored, if people listened, no one would ever again seek attention. But they always do, they strive and strive, hoping one day they, too, will have the luxury of lamenting their high profile.
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  9. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    I often messed up with people, it was true, but it rarely happened because I was reading them wrong; it was because I got nervous, or because I could see too clearly that I was not what they wanted. And, in fact, it was in falling short that I truly excelled.
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  10. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitation... I spent those times hiding. Most of the other girls propped open their doors for visitation, but we kept ours shut.
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  11. Curtis Sittenfeld _ Prep

    Either Ault was a lot harder than my junior high had been, or I was getting dumber- I suspected both. If I wasn't literally getting dumber, I knew at least that I'd lost the glow that surrounds you when the teachers think you're one of the smart, responsible ones, that glow that shines brighter every time you raise your hand in class to say the perfect thing, or you run out of room in a blue book during an exam and have to ask for a second one.
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  12. Curtis Sittenfeld _ American Wife

    She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant and contradictory place, and it had made me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.
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