Excerpt: "...You're noticing, perhaps for the first time, how you've commodified your own magnetism. If you stop being endlessly fascinating, perpetually available, aesthetically irreproachable, emotionally competent beyond means and measure, will anyone still find you valuable? You hussy! Do you wonder whether, if you raise your rates, literally or metaphorically, the room might empty?..."

Excerpt: "...the truth you're excavating from your own mental archives carries exactly that quality—liberating but also infuriating, in equal measure. Especially when you realise how much of your so-called clarity has just been high-functioning anxiety dressed up in a lab coat and horn-rimmed glasses. Nerd-sexy, maybe, but ugh.. perfunctory and likely to lead to messy situations..."

Excerpt: "...When your career or reputation unexpectedly mutates without permission, the fury travels downward, through the floorboards, into your kitchen, your bedroom, into cellular memories of your parents' house, into ancient resentment towards whoever first made you feel unsafe in what should have been sanctuary. And then, heaven's forbid... you make everyone around you pay for it....."