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“Well. I think you’re naive, but I’m not in the business of making other people’s decisions. And I suppose you’re only naive once. It’s a pity to have cynics rob you of the chance to be foolish. But I—“ Mail stops talking and suddenly looks very, very tired.

“Want to hear about the awful book I bought at the airport newsstand?” Eddie asks instead. “I feel really petty about it.”
“Yes, please,” Mark says, sounding like a kid who’s been offered a second scoop of ice cream.
Before ten minutes have passed, Mark has committed to buying this book first thing in the morning and reading it immediately so they can be petty about it together tomorrow night

“No, no, I didn’t mean it like that. I’m not trying to be cagey. I spent years having to protect my—the person I was with. I had to be careful not to mention him. And the easiest way to avoid mentioning one key detail of your private life is to never mention any details of your private life.” (Mark)

“You ever get furious with yourself for not being able to do something very, very normal?” Mark asks.

“The problem with not talking much is that it frees your brain up to notice things you’d be better off not thinking about. “

“Now that he doesn’t even have that much, […] / He’s angry to be without it, and angry that he couldn’t expect more, and angry not to have anyone to complain to. It’s too much anger, and sometimes it comes out in all the wrong ways, but he can’t explain that to anyone, either.”

“He and Nick have been paying attention to the trials and travails of the city’s new baseball team—Nick because he loves baseball, and Mark because he loves drama. But Mark doesn’t follow the game; a passing familiarity with baseball is something he caught, like the measles, not something he did on purpose.”