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Top 20 Zoje Stage Quotes (2025 Update)

Zoje Stage Quote: “Sociopaths are liars who manipulate toward a desired outcome, but they tend not be as callous as psychopaths. Psychopathy can be genetic, the structure of the brain, and it can include chemical and physical components – a lesion on a particular part of the brain, not unlike the sociopath – but it’s marked by more-aggressive, remorseless traits: where a sociopath might manipulate, the psychopath attacks.”

1. “Sociopaths are liars who manipulate toward a desired outcome, but they tend not be as callous as psychopaths. Psychopathy can be genetic, the structure of the brain, and it can include chemical and physical components – a lesion on a particular part of the brain, not unlike the sociopath – but it’s marked by more-aggressive, remorseless traits: where a sociopath might manipulate, the psychopath attacks.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “Being a mom can be a lonely job too, sometimes other people don’t see that. The child’s the center of your universe.”

2. “Being a mom can be a lonely job too, sometimes other people don’t see that. The child’s the center of your universe.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She resented her body’s betrayal. She still couldn’t express how insecure it made her, how she lived on a precipice. The most basic parts of her could fail, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.”

3. “She resented her body’s betrayal. She still couldn’t express how insecure it made her, how she lived on a precipice. The most basic parts of her could fail, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She needed to disconnect a few times a day, like a battery in reverse that recharged when it wasn’t plugged in.”

4. “She needed to disconnect a few times a day, like a battery in reverse that recharged when it wasn’t plugged in.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She felt unhinged, like any large noise would force her body parts to separate and trail off into space in a slow-motion explosion. She wanted sleep. Real sleep.”

5. “She felt unhinged, like any large noise would force her body parts to separate and trail off into space in a slow-motion explosion. She wanted sleep. Real sleep.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She dreaded all the necessary doctor appointments where she was supposed to surrender her own privacy and fears of being tortured for the benefit of the baby. Like it was already someone else’s body and their needs superseded her own.”

6. “She dreaded all the necessary doctor appointments where she was supposed to surrender her own privacy and fears of being tortured for the benefit of the baby. Like it was already someone else’s body and their needs superseded her own.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She would have killed for anything with Julius the Monkey on it.”

7. “She would have killed for anything with Julius the Monkey on it.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She couldn’t understand why she was supposed to be a robot and follow endless hours of obeying an evil master’s routine – even more rigid than Mommy’s. She wanted to be master of her own schedule, decide on her own when and where she sat. To think that children everywhere sat at similar desks in similar rooms following similar routines like they were all supposed to grow up and become the same person.”

8. “She couldn’t understand why she was supposed to be a robot and follow endless hours of obeying an evil master’s routine – even more rigid than Mommy’s. She wanted to be master of her own schedule, decide on her own when and where she sat. To think that children everywhere sat at similar desks in similar rooms following similar routines like they were all supposed to grow up and become the same person.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “As they made their way up the walk, Hanna spoke again, in her soft new voice. “Do you trust me?” Suzette considered how to respond. It seemed wrong to lie when asked so directly – and it being their first real conversation. “No,” she said. “Good. They were right to burn me.”

9. “As they made their way up the walk, Hanna spoke again, in her soft new voice. “Do you trust me?” Suzette considered how to respond. It seemed wrong to lie when asked so directly – and it being their first real conversation. “No,” she said. “Good. They were right to burn me.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She’d expected her heavy-duty medication – an injectable biological drug – to eliminate the worst of her Crohn’s symptoms. And it did. But as the inflammation receded, scar tissue built up around a narrowing in her intestine.”

10. “She’d expected her heavy-duty medication – an injectable biological drug – to eliminate the worst of her Crohn’s symptoms. And it did. But as the inflammation receded, scar tissue built up around a narrowing in her intestine.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “But she knew how adults thought. They liked what they could see right in front of them, solid things. They encouraged imagination but hated anything imaginary.”

11. “But she knew how adults thought. They liked what they could see right in front of them, solid things. They encouraged imagination but hated anything imaginary.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “Words, ever unreliable, were no one’s friend.”

12. “Words, ever unreliable, were no one’s friend.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “Yet, for all the hours Imogen spent as an adult cocooned in her apartment, she still wasn’t sure if she’d ever felt truly at home anywhere. Sometimes in the company of a tree – or a creek, or a moss-covered rock, or a desert night haloed by the Milky Way – she felt the tension inside her finally relent. There – out there – was a place where she belonged.”

13. “Yet, for all the hours Imogen spent as an adult cocooned in her apartment, she still wasn’t sure if she’d ever felt truly at home anywhere. Sometimes in the company of a tree – or a creek, or a moss-covered rock, or a desert night haloed by the Milky Way – she felt the tension inside her finally relent. There – out there – was a place where she belonged.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “Hanna loved how the pencils and crayons looked, with their pointy unused tips. She liked the quarter-size circles of watercolor paint, like frozen puddles from a dripping rainbow.”

14. “Hanna loved how the pencils and crayons looked, with their pointy unused tips. She liked the quarter-size circles of watercolor paint, like frozen puddles from a dripping rainbow.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “Now that she knew the name of the game – Scare Mommy – she should be able to defend herself. But goosebumps rose on her skin, even under the heat of the water, when she thought about her creepy daughter. The whites of her eyes. Her ability to sneak up on her as she slept.”

15. “Now that she knew the name of the game – Scare Mommy – she should be able to defend herself. But goosebumps rose on her skin, even under the heat of the water, when she thought about her creepy daughter. The whites of her eyes. Her ability to sneak up on her as she slept.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “Why couldn’t other people be bothered to put on proper clothes? She saw them everywhere. At Starbucks. Rite Aid. The Giant Eagle. People who looked as if they were just going to, or just getting ready for, bed. Now she knew what it took for her to abandon the basics of propriety. Was everyone’s life in such a state of ruin? Were they all just barely going through the motions?”

16. “Why couldn’t other people be bothered to put on proper clothes? She saw them everywhere. At Starbucks. Rite Aid. The Giant Eagle. People who looked as if they were just going to, or just getting ready for, bed. Now she knew what it took for her to abandon the basics of propriety. Was everyone’s life in such a state of ruin? Were they all just barely going through the motions?”

Zoje Stage Quote: “The baby wasn’t supposed to remind her of an internal mass of pooling waste.”

17. “The baby wasn’t supposed to remind her of an internal mass of pooling waste.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “How much had her young brain already misconstrued? Observing, absorbing. Warping, twisting. Drawing conclusions about everything they did.”

18. “How much had her young brain already misconstrued? Observing, absorbing. Warping, twisting. Drawing conclusions about everything they did.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “She told herself it wasn’t wrong to do what she most felt like doing in that moment.”

19. “She told herself it wasn’t wrong to do what she most felt like doing in that moment.”

Zoje Stage Quote: “At home, she was broken and useless; in the Canyon she had the same potential as the raven that flew circles above her head.”

20. “At home, she was broken and useless; in the Canyon she had the same potential as the raven that flew circles above her head.”

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