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“He loves hot dogs—obsessively loves hot dogs. He'd eat a hot dog every day for the rest of his life if he could. Isn't it funny that this is the kind of information that makes a person unique? That they love to eat a stick of meat in a round bed of bread. Absurd. When you grow up, Bean, maybe you will love trains. Or brussels sprouts. And we will all marvel over this thing that makes you you.”

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“This is the natural progression of the artist. At first you think it's only you. Born a star! Then you get out in the world and think, alright, there's a few of us. But just us. Meant to be! And then of course you realize it's not just you and your friends, but everyone. Hundreds of thousands of millions of people. Who want to be stars. Who think they have what it takes.”

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“But it's not the beginning; it's the end. It's just coming towards me in slow motion, so I can't make out the shape of it.”

Grief Despair Motherhood

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“It's like life is this powerful river, of doing laundry and buying groceries and driving to work and scrolling on my phone, and the weekends are so short.”

Life Despair Motherhood

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“...when somebody offers you more money, you say yes. That is the divine rule of the world, Bean, you should know this now. You always say yes.”

Despair Capitalism Motherhood

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“Is this life? The thing we were all seeking since those afternoons after school, when we saw Friends on TV and dreamed that one day we would be all grown up and get coffee with friends and hang out on a couch in an apartment. Sometimes it seems like your father and I have spent not just years doing this but eons. An infinite amount of time spent unloading the dishwasher and waiting in line at the grocery store.”

Despair Capitalism Motherhood Pessimism Nihilism

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“Something like adrenaline starts beating its slow drum inside me. Maybe you'll know this feeling one day—there's nothing a woman hates more than walking by herself, and hearing a strange noise, or feeling the presence of an "other," that horrible sickness all over my body, ground shifting, women are so unsafe, all of us always pretending to be safe, always avoiding any reminder that our safety is upheld only as long as the person closest to us keeps deciding not to kill us.”

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“You can't imagine anything worse? I want to ask him. Really? Like maybe being the person who has to go through the pain? You don't think that's just a little bit worse? But this is your father's moment. I see that now. I'm just a prop, and props don't speak.”

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“At the end of the world, the men with the guns make the rules. We've known this forever.”

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“A security guard stands in front of the doors, yelling at people to get back. He shoves a woman holding the hands of two boys wearing matching polo shirts, private school uniforms. All the lights in the store are off. The windows shattered. Inside, I can make out the dark hallways of rye bread and non-GMO cereal. At the end of the world, organic food is protected.”

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“Wow,' I say, all sweet. It's a woman thing: the more scared you get, the nicer you have to be.”

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“And the glow, the glow of hearing the words that came from inside of you being spoken out loud, of having the things you wrote be listened to and therefore made important.”

Hope Yearning Affirmation

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“The short version is that nobody told us...that it is words to try and fail than to not try at all. Because when you don't try, you can always imagine the life you could have lived.”

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“The problem with so many years spent sitting so close to somebody is that you can tell yourself you're being seen, but really you've disappeared, closed the blinds, nobody's home.”

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“...there's nothing a woman hates more than walking by herself, and hearing a strange noise, or feeling the presence of an "other," that horrible sickness all over my body, ground shifting, women are so unsafe, all of us always pretending to be safe, always avoiding any reminder that our safety is upheld only as long as the person closest to us keeps deciding not to kill us.”

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“....I rip open a candy bar and chew it twice before swallowing it, drool dripping out of my mouth. Flashlights bouncing off the floors and shelves like strobe lights. I pick up a can of something off a shelf. Blueberry lavender sauce. What the fuck. Throw it back down...”

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“Why, how, did my mother start making her birds? I don't know; I never asked. I suppose it was like growing up with a mother who goes to church on Sundays or gets her hair done every two weeks. Why? How? But the child whose mother goes to church on Sundays does not ask those questions, because to that child, it is a perfectly normal thing to do, to go sit on hard benches in a roomful of people discussing the specifics of a fairy tale (yes, I've shown my hand here, I suppose, but sooner or later you and I will have to have this discussion) and then having cookies and coffee afterward and chatting about the weather.”

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“Summer really is over. In a moment, it'll start raining, then be Christmas, then a whole new year. Lately, time seems to move like that, like as soon as I get my hand firmly around a moment, it has turned to dust and there's a new moment to try and grasp.”

Time Existential Dread

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