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“It’s conscious. It isn’t simple. We know there’s another way to live, but we can’t change. And we can’t forget about it, either. And we don’t leave. So we’re all depressed and unsatisfied.”

“It was as though he’d been granted a present tense, in which people and events could come and go without setting off shock waves that reverberated into the past.”

“Her wounds—for surely someone guarded was someone wounded—made [her] familiar and less appealing…Her methods of expressing her unhappiness were exotic, but the unhappiness was not.”