Diana

“The anxiety and fear were the only things that were real to him; they were the only things that never abandoned him. And when everyone else got to feel them, too, well, that was when he could finally relax. Now Alyssa knew. His mother, his sister, his brother—his father even. They all felt the emergency, too. Finally.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“Even still, in her hypnotized state, she recognized that he was largely mediocre. That he wasn’t particularly smart or ambitious—that he had nothing to offer but the promise of an offer.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“The avatar realized that life had been going on even as it had been paralyzed by how to live it.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise

“Beamer and Jenny knelt and held their father’s hands as they watched him take his last breath, which he did, in the arms of his trusted old friend Ike Besser, who had stood loyally by their father’s side, who had filled in the gaps where he could, who had offered their father something they never could following his ordeal, which was dignity, and in whose backyard shed were 220,000 mildewing, rotting, marked, unusable dollars, which had been there since 1980 and which would not be found until Ike’s death four years later.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise