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The adults wish they wanted anything as bad as these girl boxers want to be the best in the world at something

Izzy was older, and was supposed to know more, but here Iggy was, already being able to see that a thing could be two things at the same time

Iggy doesn’t even care about winning as much as she cares about being seen as a legend, a part of a larger story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end

Looking inside will be like looking in a mirror she forgot she owned

anyone whether she’ll ever let go of her boxing self and join the regular wheel of reality where nobody knows who’s famous, nobody knows who’s the best in the world at women’s boxing, and certainly nobody knows who you, Izzy Lang, are

Izzy’s boxing self is folded into herself so deep, so buried in the folds of her, that it’s unclear to

Iggy made scenes, and it was unclear to Izzy whether Iggy enjoyed making scenes, or if Iggy couldn’t help scene-making

Rachel thinks of herself as something people see but are unable to register

It is this ability of Kate Heffer’s to rewrite the reality of her own desires that will allow her to turn every narrative of her life into a self-fulfilling truth. She is, in this way, able to perceive and remember only those events that fit with her current perception of the world around her

Is this a situation where winning counts as winning?