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81 " Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you. "
― Jennifer Egan , A Visit from the Goon Squad
82 " I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. "
83 " Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone? "
84 " That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet. "
85 " Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us. "
86 " You kneel beside her, breathing the familiar smell of Sasha's sleep, whispering into her ear some mix of I'm sorry and I will never leave you, I'll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life, until the water pressing my shoulders and chest crushes me awake and I hear Sasha screaming into my face: Fight! Fight! Fight! "
87 " The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back. "
88 " th blu nytth stRs u can't cth hum tht nevr gOs awy "
89 " They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't."Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us. "
90 " Things had gotten -- what's the word? Dry. Things had gotten sort of dry for me. I was working as a city janitor in a neighborhood elementary school and, in summers, collecting litter in the park alongside the East River near the WIlliamsburg Bridge. I felt no shame whatsoever in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all. "
91 " and the question is, which one is really “you, "
92 " What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it. "
93 " Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what "
94 " I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me. "
95 " Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone? "
96 " Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; "
97 " Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can. "
98 " But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. "
99 " if thr r childrn thr mst be a fUtr rt? "
100 " I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn’t have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. It seems writer’s block is often a dislike of writing badly and waiting for writing better to happen. "
― Jennifer Egan
