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“I understood that expensive shirts looked better than cheap shirts. The fabric wasn't shiny, no - shiny would be cheap. But it glowed, like there was light coming through from the inside. It was a fucking beautiful shirt, is what I'm saying”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about art, but ted hadn't found a way to keep them from prowling outside it, ghostly feral creatures drinking from a pond at moonlight, their bare feet digging in the carpet....”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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