Michelle

“Those East Coast rich kids are a different breed, on a fast track to nowhere. Your friends in Seattle are downright Canadian in their niceness. None of you has a cell phone. The girls wear hoodies and big cotton underpants and walk around with tangled hair and smiling, adorned backpacks. Do you know how absolutely exotic it is that you haven’t been corrupted by fashion and pop culture? A month ago I mentioned Ben Stiller, and do you remember how you responded? ‘Who’s that?’ I loved you all over again.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. "You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“But the border was imperceptible. There was something insidious about that - if you ask me, all fateful boundaries in a person’s are just as insidiously imperceptible. You are on this side until a certain point, and then a short while later you come to your senses - already beyond it. The irreparable has occurred, yet you weren’t able to grasp the moment it happened.”
― Vera Mutafchieva