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1 " she had that rich-girl demeanor, treating life like a video game she’d already played through twice. "
― Jia Tolentino , I Would Be Doing This Anyway
2 " they made money by constantly mining personal data on the users who downloaded the company’s appealing minimalist app. "
3 " I was shocked at first by how intrusive all of this was, but then again, Seraphina had always come off mildly impervious; she had this carelessness that allowed her to do things that I would’ve berated myself for in the shower for years. "
4 " I sat dead eyed in the pool house, wondering if I was in fact wrong about everything, if visibility was actually just like money, where if you had enough of it there was a threshold of security below which you would never really fall. "
5 " She’d captioned the photos of her “ultimate self-quarantine” with an affiliate link that gave people discounts on their own escapes from the city, as well as a meditation about how, in the midst of crisis, nothing was more important than protecting your mental health. "
6 " We all ended up getting margaritas after class, and for the next six weeks formed a meaningless alliance; then everyone else came back to campus, and we never hung out regularly again. "
