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Elif Batuman
“How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other’s rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.”
Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Sally Rooney
“Marianne, he said, I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
Sally Rooney, Normal People

Elif Batuman
“There was something abstract and gentle about the experience of being ignored—a feeling of being spared, a known impossibility of anything happening—that was consonant with my understanding of love. In theory, of course, I knew that love could be reciprocated. It was a thing that happened, often, to other people. But I was unlike other people in so many ways.”
Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Elif Batuman
“It was a strange thing how people acted as if having a kid was the best thing that could happen to anyone, even though actual parents seemed to experience most of their children's actual childhoods as an annoyance, which they compensated for by bossing them around. People with kids had to go to work every day, at boring, reliable jobs. On the plus side, work was an acceptable way to escape your children, without seeming to want to. The children, having no such escape, lived through long stretches of boredom and powerlessness, punctuated by occasional treats that they overvalued and freaked out over because the rest of their lives were so empty.”
Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Elif Batuman
“How many perfect autumns did a person get? Why did I seem always to be in the wrong place, listening to the wrong music?”
Elif Batuman, Either/Or

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