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41 " It glowed in the mid-morning sunlight, the black shutters on the open windows eyelashes on a beautiful face. "
― Emma Straub , The Vacationers
42 " the night before, but now, moments before their scheduled departure, he was wavering. Had he packed enough books? He walked back and forth in front "
43 " Day One "
44 " It’s about you. I always thought that you would need some time, you know, to grow up, but I think I just realized that it’s never going to happen, not while I’m sitting around waiting for it. "
45 " Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected to the rantings of a mentally ill person at a cocktail party. "
46 " Friendships were tricky things, especially friendships as old as theirs was. Nudity was nothing more than a collection of hard-earned scars and marks. Love was a given, uncomplicated by sex or vows, but honesty was always waiting there, ready to capsize the steady boat. "
47 " Me tienen hasta los huevos. It means I’ve had it up to my balls. "
48 " Jim's vague understanding was that she had so much money that a strict job description was superfluous. "
49 " Andi Teran’s first novel is vivid and fully realized, an entire universe expertly condensed into the pages you hold in your hands. Ana herself is a complicated delight, and by the end of the book I wanted to scoop her up into my arms. "
50 " Islands, being harder to get to, naturally separated some of the wheat from the chaff, which was the entire philosophy behind places like Nantucket, where children grew up feeling entitled to private beaches and loud pants. "
51 " What were parents anyway, except two people who had once thought they were the smartest people in the world? They were a delusional species, as tiny-brained as dinosaurs. "
52 " Teenagers and younger children did not need to sit in business class, let alone first—that was Franny’s philosophy. The extra room was for people who could appreciate it, truly appreciate it, and she did. "