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“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“George Orwell was wrong, she thinks. In the future, it won’t be the state that keeps tabs on everyone by extensive use of surveillance; it will be the people. They’ll do the state’s work for it by constantly uploading their locations, interests, food preferences, restaurant choices, political ideas, and hobbies to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites. We are our own secret police.”
― The Chain
― The Chain
“So he’s a bad guy.”
“Everyone’s bad.”
“No,” Bob said, “they’re not. Most people are okay.”
“Yeah?” A smile of disbelief.
“Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that’s your life.”
She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. “That’s it, uh?”
“That’s it sometimes.”
― The Drop
“Everyone’s bad.”
“No,” Bob said, “they’re not. Most people are okay.”
“Yeah?” A smile of disbelief.
“Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that’s your life.”
She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. “That’s it, uh?”
“That’s it sometimes.”
― The Drop
“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”
― The Girl on the Train
― The Girl on the Train
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.”
― The Price of Salt
― The Price of Salt
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