It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the… — Emily St John Mandel

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.

“Hell is other actors,” Kirsten said. “Also ex-boyfriends.”

Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor.