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“The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“...he’s infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know the percentage of a book he’s read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings