Nicole

“I wrote: I mean, I have one. Does it really matter what it is? JB: It doesn’t matter what it is, only that I don’t know it? Maybe?”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“It was always better, she believed, to wear something you couldn’t look bad in than something you could only sometimes look great in.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“I’ve been thinking, JB wrote. When you fall in love with a book, is it the character or the author you’re falling in love with? HungryGhost: I mean, I guess both? JB: And only one of them is real. True, I admitted. JB: And the fake one is the only one you get to actually know. But you can kind of feel the author under there, beneath the surface of the fake world you’re inhabiting. Their imagination is the water you’re swimming in, the air you’re breathing. They’ve made every table and every chair and every person in the whole book. I couldn’t breathe. JB: I’m just saying, even if everything you wrote me was a lie (and I know, not ALL of it was a lie, but even if it was!), then in some sense I would still know you, at least as well as I feel I know Neal Stephenson or William Gibson or whatever, and honestly, I feel like I know them better than I know anyone in the world. Do you know what I mean?”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“She knew this was because real people were both good and bad, all mixed up together, only the screen made everyone into basic silhouettes. The resulting image could appear either way depending on which way you turned it, which details you showed.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles