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Rachel thinks of herself as something people see but are unable to register

It is this ability of Kate Heffer’s to rewrite the reality of her own desires that will allow her to turn every narrative of her life into a self-fulfilling truth. She is, in this way, able to perceive and remember only those events that fit with her current perception of the world around her

Is this a situation where winning counts as winning?

and that this particular match has transitioned, in Kate Heffer’s mind, from a must-win situation into an apathetic period of time, because somehow, miraculously, Kate Heffer has discerned, in the middle of this fight, that this moment, this match, which she thought was the moment around which other moments circled, actually has absolutely no meaning in her life.

What a strange thing, to have children, and to then have those children have children, thinks Rachel’s grandmother. Where do their souls come from

The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular

But really Rachel thinks running is best for forgetting she has a head

Nothing makes you believe that the world is meaningless like seeing things burn in a fire

What a sad thing, to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. God, how I hate the sound of it. Good girl, thinks Rachel, is mountains and mountains worse than good boy. All a good boy has to do to be good is put on a clean shirt. Nobody wants to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. There can’t be a single girl in here who wants to be just fine

Only people who don’t know the meaning of time put on timers