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“A polite bitch is still a bitch.
“Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.�
“I believe there are people who think the rules, or the law, shouldn’t apply to their particular situation because they’re poor or they’re rich, they’re sad or sick or sorry. Or whatever justification most fits their individual makeup and circumstance.�
It always puzzled her why people looked so surprised, even annoyed, when they asked a question and the response was negative.
“People say, to someone they love: I’d die for you. They don’t expect to, of course, have no plans to. They may believe it, or mean it, or it may simply be an expression of devotion. But I know what it means now, I understand that impossible depth of emotion now. And I know you would die for me. You’d put my life before yours to protect me. And that terrifies me.�
