# Quote — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

> At last he found Rebecca, smiling, holding Cara-Ann in her arms. She was dancing. They were too far away for Alex to reach them, and the distance felt irrevocable, a chasm that would keep him from ever again touching the delicate silk of Rebecca's eyelids, or feeling, through his daughter's ribs, the scramble of her heartbeat. Without the zoom, he couldn't even see them. In desperation, he T'd Rebecca, pls wAt 4me, my bUtiful wyf, then kept his zoom trained on her face until he saw her register the vibration, pause in her dancing, and reach for it.

- Author: [Jennifer Egan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan.md)
- Book: [A Visit from the Goon Squad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jennifer_Egan#A_Visit_from_the_Goon_Squad_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jennifer-egan/a-visit-from-the-goon-squad/at-last-he-found

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> I can't tell if [Alice’s] actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real.

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