You go about your business, as far away from these lines as possible, pretending they're not there. So when you eventually find yourself at one of these lines, your toe inching over, it's not only shocking and horrifying, it's banal. Because you've always been aware the lines were there, where you were trying with all your might not to see them, knowing that sooner or later you would.
Chris PavoneThis was a bizarre moment: this crossing-over from a hypothetical plan to a concrete caper, giving in to what may turn out to be an utterly outlandish idea, possibly letting go of some important tether to sanity. Deciding yes: I will do this. But not deciding it 100 percent, because that wold be admitting too much to herself, about herself, that she didn't want to admit. But deciding it 95 percent, enough to take the possibly outlandish action, but not enough to believe beyond a reasonable doubt that this wasn't just a goof, a lark, but an actual non-insane plan.
Chris PavoneOnce you see some things, you can never forget them. If you don't want to have to see them for the rest of your life, it's better not to look in the first place.
Chris PavoneShe understood that he had to work, and he had to travel. But what he didn't have to do was be absent even when he was present.
Chris PavoneThis was globalization: everyone everywhere was interchangeable. You could be anyone anywhere to do anything.
Chris PavoneThe embarrassment that you weren't independent, your decisions not your own to make.
Chris PavoneBut all people have secrets. Part of being human is having secrets, and being curious about other people's secrets. Dirty fetishes and debilitating fascinations and shameful defeats and ill-begotten triumphs, humiliating selfishness and repulsive inhumanity. The horrible things that people have thought and done, the lowest points in their lives.
Chris PavoneBecause she'd once made a horrible decision that would haunt her forever, and because the one person in the world she'd trusted without reservation was lying to her.
Chris PavoneBut quitting didn't change what she'd already done. The piece of her past that she'd never be able to outrun.
Chris PavoneThey are permanent tourists, in Paris. Their life is a certain type of dream come true.
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