“Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.”
“The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.”
“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”
“The pleasure almost split me like a baking stuffed tomato. Like my heart swelled and my skin got thinner and thinner in the heat of it. Of company.”
“She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.”
“You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.”