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“THERE WAS NOWHERE ON EARTH more desolate than a Gristedes on New Year’s Eve.”
― City on Fire
― City on Fire

“Satin Island, like all books, contains hundreds of borrowings, echoes, remixes and straight repetitions. To list them all would take up as much space as the text itself. The critical reader can entertain him- or herself tracking some of them down, if he or she is that way inclined.”
― Satin Island
― Satin Island

“I am Iraqi,” she’d said on my previous visit. “I am used to promises that are good but not real.”
― Redeployment
― Redeployment

“The world was overpopulated with talkers and underpopulated by listeners, and many of her sources gave her the impression that she was the first person who’d ever truly listened to them.”
― Purity
― Purity

“(why exactly twenty-somethings are considered so vital to protest movements, I never figured out, seeing as how they never vote and have no money)”
― The Wallcreeper
― The Wallcreeper

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