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“I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.”
“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.”
“My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.”
“Loneliness, I've read, is like being in a long line, waiting to reach the front where it's promised something good will happen. Only the line never moves, and other people are always coming in ahea...”
“She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.”
“It was as if they'd discovered something that had once been there but had gotten hidden or misunderstood or forgotten over time, and they were charmed by it once more, and by one another. Which see...”
“The longer they stayed on, and the better they knew each other, the better she at least could see their mistake, and the more misguided their lives becamelike a long proof in mathematics in which t...”
“In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.”
