Breanna’s Reviews > Beautyland > Status Update

Pg. 241: “Humans want to find aliens so they feel less alone. They don’t know there is nothing lonelier than an alien.
The reply fax squeaks through the machine.
How can people feel alone in New York City?”

Pg. 239: “Grace, a place to store loss.”

Pg. 240: “Dogs, she faxes, are the best we can do.”

Pg. 194: “I know how you worry. I'm not dead. I'm learning."

Pg. 195: If it hangs around long enough, humans will assign significance to anything. What finite softies!

Pg. 201: "At what point does one become a New Yorker?" "Never."

Pg. 193: Adina's shoulders tingle. She experiences a feeling of return. Toni is counting, overloud and slow: One, two ... A father and son walk by carrying a giant balloon.
The lamps turn on in the park. Electricity is the existence of power in a terrain of charged particles. Adina knows how they feel.

Pg. 164: "After reaching cruising altitude," he says, "nothing can force a plane out of the sky. So what are you afraid of? Wind or engine failure?"
"Staying the same forever," she says. "And wind."