“Time has altered and condensed their nuances, made them more than story, greater than the sums of their parts. But that requires time. The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“Ya need some girlfriends, hon, ’cause they’re furever. Without a vow. A clutch of women’s the most tender, most tough place on Earth.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“There are entrenched ideas (both positive and negative) about what the internet is, conceded even by those who disagree with the veracity of the assertions: the way it refigures politics and social organization, the degree to which it alters the experience of adolescence, its contradictory ability to connect and estrange simultaneously, and its overall acceleration of the news cycle.”
― The Nineties: A Book
― The Nineties: A Book
“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Over time,[*] the Google algorithm created something that had never previously existed: a consensus about the shared understanding of everything.”
― The Nineties: A Book
― The Nineties: A Book
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