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The thought was disquieting—that our identities should be so mutable, and therefore the course of our lives.
Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
“This isn’t you,” they tell us. “And you know it. So do we.”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
My impulse, over the past few years, had been to remove myself from my own life, to watch from the periphery and try to see the vectors, the scaffolding, the systems at play. Psychologists might refer to this as dissociation; I considered it the sociological approach. It was, for me, a way out of unhappiness. It did make things more interesting.
Anna Wiener • Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
(She was, what, thirty-five? In that moment, I found her thrillingly jaded.)
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
noblesse oblige,
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Decent. Hospitality wasn’t the same as friendliness, and if anyone asked, she would say that she’d been raised to be hospitable.