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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “I cared a about the details. Not because they were something I could control, but because they were something I could own. And there was so little that was mine.”

151. “I cared a about the details. Not because they were something I could control, but because they were something I could own. And there was so little that was mine.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Her voice had run into a wall. She tried again but no sound came out. She said, “It would’ve been easier if he’d said something funny.” They all laughed, just to add their voices to the room, to get her through this.”

152. “Her voice had run into a wall. She tried again but no sound came out. She said, “It would’ve been easier if he’d said something funny.” They all laughed, just to add their voices to the room, to get her through this.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He did Choristers and orchestra and Follies and spring musical and taught a few classes.” Jamila said, “They had one person doing all that?” “It was a different place.”

153. “He did Choristers and orchestra and Follies and spring musical and taught a few classes.” Jamila said, “They had one person doing all that?” “It was a different place.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Beth Docherty seemed wealthy and bored, a stay-at-home mom using social media to sell essential oils for money that, from the look of her house, she didn’t need.”

154. “Beth Docherty seemed wealthy and bored, a stay-at-home mom using social media to sell essential oils for money that, from the look of her house, she didn’t need.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “It’s been a long time since I had a day that just cuts your life in two.”

155. “It’s been a long time since I had a day that just cuts your life in two.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “I’ve always been happiest when I can sit in the dark, when I can turn off my own life and watch a story unfold.”

156. “I’ve always been happiest when I can sit in the dark, when I can turn off my own life and watch a story unfold.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Or maybe it was just that he wanted to believe in a world where this apartment still existed, where it was forever 1985, where the door might open at any moment and there would be Julian with a party invitation, Terrence with beer, Nico with a new comic for Charlie.”

157. “Or maybe it was just that he wanted to believe in a world where this apartment still existed, where it was forever 1985, where the door might open at any moment and there would be Julian with a party invitation, Terrence with beer, Nico with a new comic for Charlie.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “I thought of a friend in La who’d said recently of her own daughter, “It feels wrong to give her all this happiness and confidence when we know what is coming. Seventh grade is going to hit like a wall. It feels like fattening a pig for slaughter.” But what was the alternative? Starving the pig?”

158. “I thought of a friend in La who’d said recently of her own daughter, “It feels wrong to give her all this happiness and confidence when we know what is coming. Seventh grade is going to hit like a wall. It feels like fattening a pig for slaughter.” But what was the alternative? Starving the pig?”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “This sounded plausible in all but the interpretation – the kind of thing Jerome might have done when buzzed.”

159. “This sounded plausible in all but the interpretation – the kind of thing Jerome might have done when buzzed.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Alder stood, brushed off his jeans. He said, “I’m a Black man in America. My hopes aren’t up.”

160. “Alder stood, brushed off his jeans. He said, “I’m a Black man in America. My hopes aren’t up.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Adler struck me as a hugely creative kid who’d gotten the unfortunate message early on that there was always a right answer.”

161. “Adler struck me as a hugely creative kid who’d gotten the unfortunate message early on that there was always a right answer.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He wanted to bathe in if for five seconds, the future he might be having if it weren’t for everything.”

162. “He wanted to bathe in if for five seconds, the future he might be having if it weren’t for everything.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “And Yahav appeared regularly on Britt and Alder’s show, speaking to the legal side of things. He was still married to his wife. He was still beautiful.”

163. “And Yahav appeared regularly on Britt and Alder’s show, speaking to the legal side of things. He was still married to his wife. He was still beautiful.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Just because you can’t picture someone doing something doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of it.”

164. “Just because you can’t picture someone doing something doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of it.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Claire allows that.”

165. “Claire allows that.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “It hit him now that he’d outlive Charlie, that he’d be the one looking back on this in fifty years, telling Charlie’s story to someone just as Nora had told Ranko’s to him.”

166. “It hit him now that he’d outlive Charlie, that he’d be the one looking back on this in fifty years, telling Charlie’s story to someone just as Nora had told Ranko’s to him.”

— Rebecca Makkai

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