Noticing Sentences

 More information has been gathered about you, me, the world, and the universe in the last ten years than the previous 10,000 years. p59

 I think it would be a terrible sacrifice to do nothing. p258

Description Dell Duke is not a bad person. He is just bad at being  a person. p289

 LOL Those two are hiding their sex tea from me. p122 Description/ Emotion Wryly noting that glaciers break off and icebergs dissolve, but my jealousy never seems to change form. p549 Love is hope for other people. p591

 "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life." Jane Addams in a 1892 speech p29 Grace Hopper was on The Late Show with David Letterman!  Can I find this episode? Gertrude [Berg] said, "these surface differences serve to emphasize how much alike most people are underneath." p141

 I've often wondered about that, about how kids can turn into monsters, how they learn that killing is right and oppression is just, how in one single generation the world can change on its axis into a place that's unrecognizable. p102

 "Who gives a shit about this 'value add' stuff? Don't you know that negative numbers have value, too? Algebra stretches in both directions. So does life." p165

 It's always better to know. You should always know the thing that happened. If you don't know, then you can't understand what justice is. p105

Honoring the Past "It'll be our job to remember the parts we got wrong and make it better for our children and grandchildren. Embrace our differences, and still find a way to make peace."  p110 "Never be ashamed of where you come from, or the stories your ancestors bring to you. Make them your own."  p122 What the Collective doesn't understand is by honoring the past, our ancestors, our cultures-- and remembering our mistakes-- we become better. p258

Self-Confidence I am able to forget how I'm supposed to feel about  my body and instead I enjoy what my body actually  feels. p279 "...You look at me and you see me struggle through things and you root for me regardless, thinking I'm, like, killing it out there in the world, but when it's you, you don't cut yourself any slack and you beat yourself up. But I'm a regular person and so are you," she says. p314

Family Maybe you can't pick who you get in the beginning, but you can sure  pick who you end up with. p200