Barbara Adde’s Reviews > Exit Party > Status Update

“The point isn’t that the candle won’t last the night. Everything is temporary. The point is that the light is gorgeous while it lasts.”

“Sometimes living in this country felt like living at the end of the world. He tried to accept this, tried to find some meaning in it. Who will you be at the end of the world? I tried to be a good parent. I tried to be a good friend.”

“The thing about living in a place like this was how hard you had to work to not see the obvious….”

“Death is transport.”

“‘I think if you live long enough,’ Nico said, ‘you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there’s nothing left of it, but you’re still here.’”

“‘She was pretty,’ Eddie said, ‘and tired, but we were all tired in those years. Societal breakdown is exhausting.’”

“But the future arrives regardless.”

“There were entire afternoons that she couldn’t account for later. In those months she felt like she was haunting her own life.”