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“For the first time in a while, I’m living life instead of just writing about it.”
― Alex Aster, Summer in the City

“But even as I settled back into the slow daily labor of writing, I thought often of the work that was happening back there, invisible to many, and of how in the courthouse every Monday a dozen men and women stood up and repeated their lines, players in a performance we’d somehow agreed to call justice.”
― Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

“Do all books have maps?” he asks. “No,” I say. “Only the best ones.”
― Alex Aster, Summer in the City

“There’s no one else inside but us. It’s like, for just a moment, this slice of New York City is ours.”
― Alex Aster, Summer in the City