“It was deeper than some boy thinking she was cute. It was more like she was food and he was hungry. It was as if Mars needed her to survive.”

“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,he liked her a lot.He liked her cute figure,he thought she was hot.”

“Asami:...Did you think she was cute?Haruna: Hmm? Yeah, I thought she was cute!Asami: Do you think she's cuter than me?Haruna: Huh? Who's cuter!? Umm... She's more 'normal'...Asami: Yeah, that 'normal' part of her was why she was so popular.”

“A sated person is different from a hungry one. A hungry one can't be persuaded to do anything, but a full person can be given boundaries and convinced... Like most intelligent and creative people, she knew what she wanted and how to focus her whole being on what she wanted. She wasn't avoiding food, she was using food to get over her fear of eating. It was unspoken, but that was what we both wanted for her.”

“She was here, and she was stronger than this, harder than this. They could make her hate herself, make her doubt herself, but they couldn’t take away her deepest instinct. Not just the need to survive, but the need to survive long enough and strong enough to tell them to go fuck themselves.”

“We stood there, the three of us, our jaws firmly planted on the floor. Aunt Lil recovered first. She nudged me with her elbow and said with a cackle of delight, "I think you guys should make some more of those brownies, 'cause that boy looks hungry.”