Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done. Naomi Alderman
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  2. One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.
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