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" but it was not a comfort to sit with someone whose pain mirrored mine. I don't know what it was."

"Has she ever seen anything more perfect and strange? It's been an unseasonably warm December, but the holidays came anyway, talk of nuclear war in the news, people destroyed by grief, and in the dark were grown women, barefoot, behaving like girls who'd never heard a word of it."

"anger is a useful tool... but I think it is a weapon– a tool useful only in combat and self-defense."

Didn't love Theroux's book of essays, but i've always loved this story and i'm excited to sit with it again

" Yes, we were quite the pair. What we hadn't thought would fill an ocean."

"Did I understand it? Not by half, but when it thunders you know your chest is shaking."

" We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological rumination. "

" If we end the story with decay, we abandon all hope—or turn our attention to other sites of promise and ruin, promise and ruin. "