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“Mircea asked Nate what he liked most about America, and Nate had trouble coming up with a definitive list.
"Most people say the freedoms," Mircea said. "But what is freedom exactly?
What happens when one person's freedom infringes on another's?”
― Weike Wang, Rental House

“In reality, problems leave when they are ready to go, when they have exhausted their stay, just as these lice did.”
― Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

“Sir, we are not welcome anywhere. Only cemeteries don’t mind our bodies. We no longer look for Palestine. Our time is spent dying. Soon, Palestine will search for us, for our whispers, for our footsteps, our fading pictures fallen off blown-up walls.”
― Mosab Abu Toha, Forest of Noise: Poems

“But whether people cultivate an exterior meant to signal their politics, or they cultivate, instead, a strait-laced appearance that does not signal their politics, their self-representation is deliberate. It is meant to reinforce who they are (who they consider themselves to be).”
― Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake