"It was a funny thing: I didn't know where I was, but I knew I was where I wanted to be" (Ch. 1, The Sixteen Pleasures, pg. 33.)

"Home is the place where when you have to go there, they have to take you in" (Ch. 2, The Sixteen Pleasures, pg. 40.)

"I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" (Ch. 3, The Sixteen Pleasures, pg. 76.)

"I must say that the fact that they had been done by a woman did pique my curiosity, and I examined the paintings more closely than I might have otherwise. The fact that they had been done by a woman may also have colored my impressions" (Ch. 5, The Sixteen Pleasures, pg. 101-102.)

"I had expected peace and calm and (frankly) boredom, but I felt instead that I've stumbled into the backroom headquarters of a revolution" (Ch. 5, The Sixteen Pleasures, pg. 112.)

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