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“Change wears my sister’s moccasins. He stays up late and wakes up early. He likes to come up quietly and kiss me on the back of the neck when I am at my drawing table. He wants to amuse people, and it hurts him when they yell at him. Change is very musical, but sometimes you must listen for a long time before you hear the pattern in his music.”
― Ruth Gendler, The Book of Qualities

“American consumers take pride in their media savvy; they are too hip to be fooled, too jaded to be appalled.”
― Emily Nussbaum, I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

“I see now that the place I’ve been yearning for is my own imagination.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

“With equal intensity, she feared her New York life was the best of all possible worlds, and that once she left New York, the gates would come down and lock, and she’d be too feeble and parochial to ever be allowed to return.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow