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  3. What difference did it make if she was whore. It sounded like ventriloquism to even say it. I hated labels anyway. People don’t fit in slots- prostitute, housewife, saint- like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.
    — Janet Fitch, White Oleander
     


  4. ”… Is it hate, is it fear, is it sprained compassion for the darkness? What do I know. ”

     

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  6. ”He doesn’t want to feel, he wants to be hated. It’s just easier that way.”