“Whatever I felt, whatever this feeling was inside of me, there is no place for it. There is no place for it to go, and I would have to carry it around inside of me for a long time, so long that it would fossilize and become a part of me.” LifeSelfFeelingsInternalizing Book:Bliss Montage Source: Bliss Montage
“It was the anonymity. He wanted to be unknown, unpossessed by others' knowledge of him. That was freedom.” LifeFreedomInsightfulNihilismAnonymity Book:Severance Source: Severance
“It was a time when the future could have been anything, been anywhere. It was so open that it could actually crush her.” LifeTimeDangerFutureOpennessWide Open Book:Bliss Montage Source: Bliss Montage
“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.” LifeIncomeRegularityScheduleGetting ByDoing OkDiscretionary IncomeRegular Schedule Book:Bliss Montage Source: Bliss Montage
“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a vocation, a relationship, a life. She intended to avoid that slow calcification for as long as possible—if only by refraining from making any crucial choices. In other words, she was moving back home.” LifeJobsChoicesRelationshipsWorkGraduationVocationCalcificationMoving Back Home Book:Bliss Montage Source: Bliss Montage
“To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made for you during the morning and evening rush, winding through the crowds of fellow commuters. To live in a city is to consume its offerings. To eat at its restaurants. To drink at its bars. To shop at its stores. To pay its sales taxes. To give a dollar to its homeless. To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?” LifeWorkCitiesLivingCity LifeSystemsCommutingRhythms Book:Severance Source: Severance