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“Thoughts are often false. A feeling's always real. Not true, just real”
Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
“To David, love meant declaration. Wasn't that the whole point? To Sarah, love meant a shared secret. Wasn't that the whole point?”
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“And right away her gaze went hard with the anger we always feel at the person who spoils our idea of ourself.”
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“Once you’re old enough to recognize a hole in yourself it’s too late for the hole to be filled.”
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“All kids want such glamorous knowledge. The darkness of it. The hardness of it. The realness of it. The cold fact that life really is fucked. And Sarah, with her Morrissey T-shirts and her unfiltered Camels and her sleep deprivation and her willful compliance with sexual hungers, she's been asking for this awful dispossession, with one mind she's been hot on its trail, and now that she's got it she longs to go back. If she could only go back, and eat the sandwich her mother packed her, with its thoughtful tomato.”
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“They were all children who had previously failed to fit in, or had failed, to the point of acute misery, to feel satisfied, and they had seized on creative impulse in the hope of salvation.”
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“I always knew I was one of the ones who would leave.”
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“Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum.”
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“Obsession is an accidental haunting, by a person not aware she’s a ghost. I knew Sarah was my ghost, but she’d forgotten I even existed.”
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“just drive. “Sarah, I want to share with you something. I think it will help you. Young people like you experience pain more intensely than those of us just a bit older. I speak of emotional pain. Your pain is greater, in duration and strength. It is harder to bear. This is not a metaphor. It is a fact, of physiology. Of psychology. Your emotional sensitivity—it is superior to that of your parents, your teachers. That is why these years of your life, when you are fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, are so difficult, but also so important. That is why developing your talent at this age is so crucial. This heightened emotional pain is a gift. A difficult gift.” Despite herself, she’s listening. “Are you saying,” she manages after a while, “that in the future, when I’m older, things won’t hurt as much?” “Yes, exactly. But Sarah, I am saying something else. Don’t turn away from the pain. When you are older, yes, you will be harder. That is a blessing and a curse.”
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“Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached.”
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“We never know, when life reunites us with someone, how closely our stories will match.”
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“Love was some kind of of chemical error.”
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“that acting was truthful emotions in false circumstances.”
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“It was interesting, actually, how everyone’s primary feeling-state at that moment was disguised as a different emotion. Sarah’s repulsion at being reunited with Liam took the form of outrage at Martin. Liam’s passion for Sarah took the form of concern for Karen. And Karen’s unbearable humiliation, which she had always expected and never expected, took the form of emotionlessness and not caring. “I”
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“We almost never know what we know until after we know it.”
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“What really pissed me off about what you wrote," Karen tried to tell Sarah as Sarah knelt screaming by Martin, as if Sarah had just one stage direction but was going to do it for all she was worth, "is how you wrote so much just like it happened, and then left out the actual truth. Why even do that? Who do you think you're protecting?”
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“Girls are complicated. They rarely love each other without also hating each other.”
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“REMEMBER THE IMPOSSIBLE eventfulness of time, transformation and emotion packed like gunpowder into the barrel. Remember the dilation and diffusion, the years within days. Theirs were endless; lives flowered and died between waking and noon.”
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“Intuition only tells them what they want, not how to achieve it,”
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“It was part of the excruciating in-betweenness of no longer being children, yet lacking those powers enjoyed by adults.”
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“That glimpse, of herself alone at the heart of his gaze, only lasted an instant. His indifference to their audience struck her as a dare or a test. She didn’t see as a counterindication to this angry idea of hers his hot blush as deep as her own; if her face was as red as a beet, his was red as a burn, he’d come out in lurid blotches that overlapped with his boy’s patchy stubble to make a mess of his face.”
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“The vast southern city they lived in was rich in land, poor in everything else—no bodies of water, no drainage, no hills, no topographical variety of any sort, no public transportation or even the awareness of the lack of such a thing.”
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“Is that some other creature with me, in the darkness?”
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“She wasn’t petty, she has never been petty, has never had enough self-possession, or possessed enough self, to afford pettiness, because petty is a way people are who have something to spare.”
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“Joelle is not convoluted but simple, not sullen but sunny, yet she has the extensive clandestine life of a career criminal, and this used to enthrall Sarah. Now Joelle appears stripped bare, her essence exposed. She's just a party girl, overeager to be liked.”
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“I’ve been looking for that same secret message, that same confirmation that I matter most to whoever is sending the code.”
Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
“Remember the impossible eventful ness of time, transformation and emotion packed like gunpowder into the barrel. Remember the dilation and diffusion, the years within days. Theirs were endless; lives flowers and died between waking and noon.”
Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
“[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live.”
Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
“In space … no one can hear your bad jokes.”
Susan Choi, Trust Exercise

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