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"We choose to be educated by things bigger than something so small it can be worn on a human wrist, I said. What other way is there? he said. I gestured with both my arms to everything around us. I don’t get it, he said. You know, I said. Being here. In person."

"My life? Well. I tell you what, Bri. It’s a puzzle all right and right now solving it is out of my hands."

"Well, people like to think they can control nature. They think they can make where they live look better if they do."

"A whistleblower means someone who tells the truth about something when other people don’t want anybody to tell the truth about it."

"I looked up to render temporary too, and discovered that rendering made walls more breathable and also that temporary render wasn’t at all a good thing for a building or any surface and was likely to crack sooner rather than later."

"Then it’s going to be about their own status as immortals, our mother said. Because nobody alive wants to believe, or actually can believe, psychologically, that they’re temporary. Though we all are. Everybody is. There’s no them or us when it comes to that."

"Were you called Oona for a reason like a song? I said. It’s because I’m the one and the only, she said. And simultaneously universal. No, I’m actually named after a grandmother. Though sure enough that grandmother was also the one and the only, and the universal. Also a goddess."

"listen, I’m seventy nine, I’ve a lifetime’s worth of experience in the pushy tactics of men and what he doesn’t know yet is I can keep this up all day and night."

"We can’t solve it. But we can still salve it. That was something else our mother’d say."

"If only people paid more attention, she said, to what history tells us rather than all this endless congratulating ourselves for finding a new way to read it. All the ways of reading are good, I said. She agreed."