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“She needed her and she couldn’t stand the thought of needing anyone. She was, she understood, deeply in love. It was wonderful and it was miserable.”

“—and what if Vince had been wrong? What if Preston had been right? What if the truth was that art would always fail because it could only ever be an approximation of something else? That it wasn’t the same as activism, just as opinion wasn’t the same as politics and a picture wasn’t the same as an experience?”

“But then one night in early October Karina had opened up to Louisa—cigarettes and Chatroulette, who would’ve thought?—and she’d felt deliriously happy. The sensation was so unfamiliar that it almost felt like fear. It felt like losing control.”