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"He quickly learned that that conversation had the potential to make him feel like he wanted to die. People under forty had optimism. They had optimism for the future; they didn't accept that their future was going to resemble their present with alarming specificity. They had velocity. He couldn't bear velocity at that moment." (pg. 26)

"His former intern Sari posted a picture of herself bowling at a school fundraiser with her husband. She'd apparently gotten three strikes. 'What a night,' she'd written. Toby had stared at it with the overwhelming desire to write, 'Enjoy this for now' or 'All desire is death.' It was best to stay off Facebook." (pg. 20)

"He just wanted regular, silly things in life, like stability and emotional support and a low-grade contentedness. Why couldn't he just have regular, silly things?" (pg. 20)