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11 pages, Audiobook
First published May 2, 2019
"Who do you think I am, an amateur?"
“Pip wished she was strong enough, but she’d learned that she wasn’t invincible; she too could break.”
“Pip knew a great many things; she knew that hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia was the technical term for the fear of long words.”
“I found these statistics: 80% of missing people are found in the first twenty-four hours. 97% are found in the first week, and 99% of cases are resolved in the first year. That leaves just 1%. 1% of people who disappear are never found. And just 0.25% of all missing persons cases have a fatal outcome."
“What's wrong with me? ... I might seem like the ideal student: homework always in early, every extra credit and extracurricular I can get my hands on, the good girl and the high achiever. But I realized something just now: it's not ambition, not entirely. It's fear. Because I don't know who I am when I'm not working, when I'm not focused on or totally consumed by a task. Who am I between the projects and the assignments, when there's nothing to do? I haven't found her yet and it scares me."
“Your efficiency offends me.”
“Half less of a bad thing meant there was room for half good.”
“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
"But sometimes remembering isn't for yourself, sometimes you do it just to make someone else smile. Those lies were allowed."