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We enter into all major relationships with no real clue of where we are going: marriage, birth, friendship. We carry maps we believe are true: our parents’ relationship, what it says in the baby books, the landscape of our own childhood. These maps are approximate at best, dangerously misleading at worst.

— Maureen F. McHugh Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

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Nothing prepares you for the death of a child. Nothing teaches you how to live with it.

Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

That is what lives are, aren’t they? Attempts to fill our time with activity designed to prevent us from realizing that there is no meaning?

Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

I suppose to him it looks as if I threw everything away, but how can he understand how our choices are taken from us? He doesn’t even understand freedom and what an illusion it really is.

Mothers and Other Monsters (2005)

After a minute Damien looked over her cube wall. His head was right above the Mardi Gras mask hung on her wall. She didn’t particularly want to go to Mardi Gras, which seemed to be mostly about blonde girls flashing their tits; she just liked masks.

After the Apocalypse (2011)

“So what’s wrong with capitalism?”
He sighs. For a minute I wonder if maybe he’s a capitalist. But then he says, “It’s not a fair system.”
“That’s stupid,” I say. “Things aren’t fair. Only little kids expect things to be fair.”

Protection (1992)

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