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“How was your childhood?" "Not good," I scrawled and handed the questionnaire back to him.”

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“On the Metro she thought about how easy it would be to step off somewhere else, disappear. It occurred to her that, for the whole of her life, she might never stop having that thought.”

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“Afterwards, she felt stupid, like she had revealed more than she intended.”

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“I was scared." "Scared of death? That's natural." "No . . . scared of everything else.”

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“At that moment, I have to say this – my chest grew extraordinarily tight and I felt it was very likely that I was going to die.”

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“He had several versions of his own past; all that remained consistent was how he had overcome.”

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“It felt like intimacy, or as close to intimacy as we could get.”

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“I'd been feeling the sharp deterioration of our love for some time.”

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“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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“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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“Stuff tied them to the world in a way I had no inclination for. I guess because I never expected to be here too long.”

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“Over us, like a threat, hung a painted, shimmering sky.”

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“The problem was people asked boring questions and when they asked boring questions, I gave boring answers. But if someone had asked, even once, the right question, I would have told the truth.”

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“I couldn't hold down furniture and I couldn't hold down people. It all just peeled away from me.”

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“Despite everything we had done to each other, we remained close.”

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“I prepared what I would say. I would say, 'Hello, I'm a woman who needs help,' although I had worked hard my whole life to appear as if I never needed any help.”

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“Here was my great, insurmountable problem, the culmination of all the lists – not everybody was going to love me. I didn't need everybody. I needed one person.”

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“I hadn't moved on. I don't know how anybody moves on from anything.”

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“But I don't like this. I don't like superficial connections with people.”

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“He was in the early stages of grief for someone he had never known.”

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“No matter how many times Angela thought That's not happening again, it happened. It happened and it happened. It was all over quickly, but it happened.”

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“It's terrible when you get old enough to dislike your old friends.”

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“a feeling of forever melancholy . . .”

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“There were things happening out there in the world – history, events. But history was not happening in my town, not to me.”

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“I was done with trying. There was nothing to do and I didn't feel like doing it.”

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“Next day: the usual show. My bed; dry-mouthed; alone; my entire life still before me.”

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“This mental unraveling happened at no great speed. Even the catastrophe of my own life was something I managed with amazing slowness.”

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“I thought I would be a different person by this time in my life, but I was actually becoming less like someone else and more like myself.”

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“I promised myself this would all end, at some point or another.”

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“What have I done to deserve this life?”

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“It was hard to know who to be minute by minute.”

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“After that, there was emptiness. Some wandering around, eating not-good stuff out of bags, doughnuts, Taco Bell. Enough loneliness to make you lose your mind.”

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“He told me he felt like a character being awkwardly written out of a sitcom. 'You know when they are there but they don't do or say anything? Like nobody has a clue what to do with them? Then they disappear and not a single person even bothers to mention it. That is happening to me, I think.' I was familiar with numb feelings of this type. In the garage I felt like anyone could step in and play me, if they were supplied with the correct expression of anguish, the sluggish reactions of someone baffled by their own poor choices.”

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“I was such a good girlfriend, god damn it. It was an outrage how lovely I was.”

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“My concentrating face required more effort than genuine concentration. The organisation of the face, the setting up of the features, was exhausting. Afterwards, I often lay down on the cold tiles of the office bathroom floor and didn't move for hours.”

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“My life, and what I did with it, became a sort of mystery then.”

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“I wanted him to wait and I wanted to be the thing he was waiting for.”

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“She read novels and underlined passages that felt special to her in big streaks of red pen. These novels were about civilised women who holidayed in Europe, women whose lives weren't rotten or shameful. Someday, she thought, someday. She would burn her face off to become one of these women.”

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“You should be grateful that you're young." "I want youth to be over. I don't like it." She thought of the hours she spent on the stone bench waiting for youth to pass.”

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“He was the sole link to a life Natasha felt she could never fully be part of. Already she suspected love was over for her.”

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“At least she was charming, she assured herself. But charm was thin compensation for a life of constant, lurking terror.”

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“I don't like you anymore," she announced. "You don't like anything, Natasha." It was true. One day, as a challenge, she set herself the task of writing down everything she didn't like. She filled an entire copybook with her tiny, hateful handwriting.”

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