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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Claire allows that.”

151. “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.”

152. “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.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “What’s as perfect as a girl stopped dead, midformation? Girl as blank slate. Girl as reflection of your desires, unmarried by her own. Girl as sacrifice to the idea of girl. Girl as a series of childhood photographs, all marked with the aura of girl who will die young, as if even the third grade portrait photographer should have seen it written on her face, that this was a girl who would only ever be a girl.”

153. “What’s as perfect as a girl stopped dead, midformation? Girl as blank slate. Girl as reflection of your desires, unmarried by her own. Girl as sacrifice to the idea of girl. Girl as a series of childhood photographs, all marked with the aura of girl who will die young, as if even the third grade portrait photographer should have seen it written on her face, that this was a girl who would only ever be a girl.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “But the moony expression on Roman’s face, his voice, had hit the darkest spot of Yale’s humor. How beautiful, the doomed love! How gorgeous and ambient, the ways we abandon each other! The lovely wars we die in, the poetry of disease!”

154. “But the moony expression on Roman’s face, his voice, had hit the darkest spot of Yale’s humor. How beautiful, the doomed love! How gorgeous and ambient, the ways we abandon each other! The lovely wars we die in, the poetry of disease!”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “What it was, I had a crush on the two of you together. Not in a porny way, not like – it was the two of you as a duo. You were always having so much fun.”

155. “What it was, I had a crush on the two of you together. Not in a porny way, not like – it was the two of you as a duo. You were always having so much fun.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “People take their reasons with them, don’t they?”

156. “People take their reasons with them, don’t they?”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “In another universe, I kissed Geoff then. In that other universe, I understood that I was not disgusting, that Geoff might have welcomed it or in any case would at least have been flattered. I’d have let down my guard, allowed myself to like a real and attainable person, rather than dead musicians and the hottest boy at Granby. But in the real world, it never crossed my mind.”

157. “In another universe, I kissed Geoff then. In that other universe, I understood that I was not disgusting, that Geoff might have welcomed it or in any case would at least have been flattered. I’d have let down my guard, allowed myself to like a real and attainable person, rather than dead musicians and the hottest boy at Granby. But in the real world, it never crossed my mind.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “He was a flirt, I knew that and liked it. But never creepy. His method was to grin, crinkle his eyes, bite his lip, caress the bowl of his wineglass. Not to rub shoulders or talk to boobs or hover with onion breath.”

158. “He was a flirt, I knew that and liked it. But never creepy. His method was to grin, crinkle his eyes, bite his lip, caress the bowl of his wineglass. Not to rub shoulders or talk to boobs or hover with onion breath.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “You have to accept that, at least: beneath everything, despite a privileged life and a sense of humor, I was an angry person.”

159. “You have to accept that, at least: beneath everything, despite a privileged life and a sense of humor, I was an angry person.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “And who was he kidding? It wasn’t love. It was attraction. It was a seed that might have grown, given better soil, more sun.”

160. “And who was he kidding? It wasn’t love. It was attraction. It was a seed that might have grown, given better soil, more sun.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Inserting themselves into someone else’s story any way possible?”

161. “Inserting themselves into someone else’s story any way possible?”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Being on an airplane, even in coach, was the closest an adult could come to the splendid helplessness of infancy.”

162. “Being on an airplane, even in coach, was the closest an adult could come to the splendid helplessness of infancy.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “And she’d think maybe it was only possible to love someone that long if he was gone. Could you love a living, flawed human that many years?”

163. “And she’d think maybe it was only possible to love someone that long if he was gone. Could you love a living, flawed human that many years?”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “This project was undertaken with a great deal of ongoing thought and conversation and concern about the line between allyship and appropriation – a line that might feel different to different readers. It is my great hope that this book will lead the curious to read direct, personal accounts of the AIDS crisis – and that any places where I’ve gotten the details wrong might inspire people to tell their own stories.”

164. “This project was undertaken with a great deal of ongoing thought and conversation and concern about the line between allyship and appropriation – a line that might feel different to different readers. It is my great hope that this book will lead the curious to read direct, personal accounts of the AIDS crisis – and that any places where I’ve gotten the details wrong might inspire people to tell their own stories.”

— Rebecca Makkai

Rebecca Makkai Quote: “For a teenager, being seen a certain way is as good as being that way.”

165. “For a teenager, being seen a certain way is as good as being that way.”

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Rebecca Makkai Quote: “Oh, Jerome. I would have stopped him if I’d seen that, would have explained on the way home why that was inappropriate.”

166. “Oh, Jerome. I would have stopped him if I’d seen that, would have explained on the way home why that was inappropriate.”

— Rebecca Makkai

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