“Ever wanted more. After all, women werent equal to men. They were better. Certainly not in strength or their skill in killing things, but when it came to propagation women absolutely trounced men. ...”

“There were times he thought he might not want to live the life he saw before him. It was a life of obstacles and hardshipschallenges and tests of will he could not yet predict. But he couldnt stop....”

“Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like shed drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.”

“She had been too well-trained to allow her emotions to take control of her at the time, but the feelings were too strong to quietly recede into a regimen of critical thought. Deep inside her they s...”

“Of course, thousands of years of traditional masculinity weren't going away without a fight. They lingered in the vestigial memories of men, occasionally challenging a decision to read the directio...”

“A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aidens mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

“Love as much as you can from wherever you are.”

“Better is not good enough, and it's a shame that anyone would be willing to settle for so little.”

“Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there i...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”