“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
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“I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.”
“Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.”
“People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.”
“Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.”
“...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.”
“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”
“We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.”