Quotes
He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.
p. 327
“Hell is other actors,” Kirsten said. “Also ex-boyfriends.”
p. 49
Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor.
p. 93
Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
p. 144
She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.
p. 91
Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies, people half his age who wandered in a dream with their eyes fixed on their screens.
p. 160
“They call themselves the light.”
“What about it?”
“If you are the light,” she said, “then your enemies are darkness, right?”
“I suppose.”
“If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.”
p. 139
It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity of city life feels like freedom.
p. 78
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