she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”

“For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps …”

“Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is sim…”

“By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so …”