Status Updates From Quicksand

P. 61: “True, she was attractive, unusual, in an exotic, almost savage way, but she wasn’t one of them. She didn’t at all count.”

P. 59: «Always she had wanted, not money, but the things which money could give, leisure, attention, beautiful surroundings. Things. Things. Things.”
- This is where I Belong.
- you are young, foreigner, different. You must have bright things (clothes) to your lovely brown color. Striking things, exotic things.

P. 14: «If you couldn’t prove your ancestry and connections, you were tolerated, but you didn’t «belong».