“Down on the street the protesters are shouting at each other, and at Lucas, but most of all they’re probably shouting just to shout. Just to be heard. Lucas stands quietly for a very, very long time, thinking about how awful it must feel: to be a person who so desperately wants something to happen. Lucas never wants anything to go on at all.”
― The Answer Is No
― The Answer Is No
“What is the word for when you know everyone is taking something too seriously, that the way it’s taking over your life isn’t normal, that it’s a little ridiculous, that it’s clearly what a bunch of rich kids stuck in a decade of ivory tower schooling need in order to think of themselves as real, living people? What is the word for the displaced energy of young people chained to academia when every atom in your body is begging you to join the world? What is the word for when you think that, truly, but then start to have those beliefs replaced with earnestness?”
― Long Island Compromise
― Long Island Compromise
“Honestly, I think you’re just obsessed with money, Max. There’s more to life than money.” She heard the last thing he said as she walked out, though, because he shouted it at her back. “Only rich people say that!”
― Long Island Compromise
― Long Island Compromise
“How the generation who worked and fought for our ability to live how we wanted to would be shocked to see not a painter, or a poet, or a concert violinist, or even a philosophy professor among us.”
― Long Island Compromise
― Long Island Compromise
“It felt good to be with people who’d borne witness to the time passing, too, which is maybe the best way to describe a shiva.”
― Long Island Compromise
― Long Island Compromise
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