“She filed all the ways she was put off under an enormous label called Weren’t You Listening? When she was annoyed and she spoke with him, her face reminded him of the faces of people he’d seen die: The animating force taken away from them, they looked like completely different people. It terrified him.”

“She filed all the ways she was put off under an enormous label called Weren’t You Listening? When she was annoyed and she spoke with him, her face reminded him of the faces of people he’d seen die: The animating force taken away from them, they looked like completely different people. It terrified him.”

— Taffy Brodesser-Akner