Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

Jennifer Egan


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I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.

Jennifer Egan

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Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

Jennifer Egan

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See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.

Jennifer Egan

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There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

Jennifer Egan


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Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

Jennifer Egan

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When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

Jennifer Egan

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Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

Jennifer Egan


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I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

Jennifer Egan

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A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

Jennifer Egan

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