Lauren

“As she left her parents' neighborhood, the houses got newer and bigger and boxier. Through windows with no mullions or fake plastic mullions she could see luminous screens, some giant, some miniature. Evidently every hour of the year, including this one, was a good hour for staring at a screen.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“I want to be famous but unknown!”
― Edgar Degas

“You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.”
― Tom Rachman, The Imperfectionists

“He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections