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“He had the kind of shrunken posture that promised something terrible had happened to him.”

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“She loved it the way you can love only a certain number of arrangements of words across the span of a life . . . we had all loved something—some poem or passage or cluster of words—as much as Leslie loved Hannah's story. It was the reason we were all there.”

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“People only seem to think something's a problem when it's a problem for them.”

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“He said it was strange, how we were shaped by so many things we would never remember and had no control over.”

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“But I've been paying attention for a while now, and I think there's also actual ordinary. People who never wonder if this is all there is, and have never gnashed their teeth at what a raw deal this whole thing inevitably becomes at some point or another, sooner or later.”

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“She had a sort of wild, dangerous intelligence that was often at the root of the trouble she got into, and she saw in him a similar intelligence, a certain way of looking at the world, that had settled in him in a way that it had not quite settled in her, and in a way that she probably hoped it might one day, despite a confidence that was as wild as her intelligence. If there was anyone who might've inspired her to change course, it was him, despite her normal distaste and disregard for most forms of authority.”

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“It's still irresistible, the idea that we meant anything to them, given how much they meant to us. How much they mean to us still. None of it had anything to do with us.”

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“. . . reading the last line of a perfectly written book. The kind of line you never saw coming but know, as soon as you read it, is the only line the book could've ended with.”

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“There was always a haunted quality about the place, even before anything bad happened.”

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“He wasn't alone because he hadn't been able to find friends, but because he didn't trust anyone enough to want to.”

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“They were trying . . . to protect themselves from any further injury by turning away from the world altogether.”

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“The kind of grief they must have felt, if they felt as bad as we did, will find you wherever you go.”

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“You seem to be someone who always wants a little more.”

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