It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

Jennifer Egan

Mots clés carpe-diem aging



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[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Jennifer Egan

Mots clés crowds psychohistory



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Even the most secure houses achieve, in deep night, a state of relative unconsciousness.

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Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution.

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Kind of like saying 'no offense' when you've just said something offensive?

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No one is waiting for me. In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for. Usually the girl is fat, but my problem is more rare, which is freckles: I look like someone threw handfuls of mud at my face.

Jennifer Egan

Mots clés funny cute



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She’s calm and happy now that Scotty loves her. 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

Mots clés thoughtful



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I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

Jennifer Egan

Mots clés sad



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Oh we'll know each other for forever' Bix said. 'The days of losing touch are almost gone.'
'What does that mean? ' Drew asks.
'We're going to meet again in a different place,' Bix said. 'Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.

Jennifer Egan

Mots clés friendship friends time



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As you flail, knowing you’re not supposed to panic – panicking will drain your strength – your mind pulls away as it does so easily, so often, without your even noticing sometimes, leaving Robert Freeman Jr. to manage the current alone while you withdraw to the broader landscape, the water and buildings and streets, the avenues like endless hallways, your dorm full of sleeping students, the air thick with their communal breath. You slip through Sasha’s open window, floating over the sill lined with artifacts from her travels: a white seashell, a small gold pagoda, a pair of red dice. Her harp in one corner with its small wood stool. She’s asleep in her narrow bed, her burned red hair dark against the sheets. You kneel beside her, breathing the familiar smell of Sasha’s sleep, whispering into her ear some mix of I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life, until the water pressing my shoulders and chest crushes me awake and I hear Sasha screaming into my face: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Jennifer Egan


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