“It wasn't terrible but it was empty. It was one long flash of emptiness.”
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“She would barely be recovered from one of these conversations when another would happen.”
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“She wanted to prove something, prove that she was still complicated and interesting without a degree.”
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“To heal the land is to heal ourselves.”
“All these relationships ended the exact same way, with circuitous conversations and dully rational arguments, as if both participants were politicians lobbying for their own happiness. Denied even heartbreak and animosity, the modern emphasis was on the demonstration of respect, however insincere.”
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“She continued doing the scrambling necessary to staying alive; working two jobs in the city, her personality dissolving into small talk. The cost of travel, the cost of lunch, the cost of being young.”
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“She should try to be gentler, less agitated, learn to make small talk in another language, or even her own language. Become someone a boy might want to touch. It seemed as if her whole life, from the age of thirteen onwards, had been geared towards that rotten desire and now the world had come up with a genius way of punishing her.”
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“It was fun, he explained, it was good, but to be the best you had to keep practicing and what was the point?”
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“My phone was more real to me than the people I encountered.”
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“My main trouble, my sister declared, was that I always lived my life like I was immediately planning on leaving it.”
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