...You want to know whether the problems that you teenagers feel—will they follow you over the rest of your lives? Will your hearts always be aching? Is that what you are asking me?”
Goodman shifted in discomfort. “Something like that,” he said.
“Yes,” said the counselor in a suddenly plangent voice. “Always they will be aching. I wish I could tell you something else, but I wouldn’t be telling the truth. My wise and gentle friends, this is the way it will be from now on.”
No one could say anything. “We are so, so fucked,” Jules finally said...
Tag: problems
After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.
Meg WolitzerTag: alone
fawn face, the expression a deer makes not when it's caught in headlights but when it catches a human looking at it in wonder. The deer looks back, acknowledging not only its own terror but its own grace, and it shows off for a moment in front of the human. It flirts.
Meg WolitzerTag: fawn-face
Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?
Meg WolitzerTag: artist
...sometimes a mindfuck was a satisfying and productive fuck after all.
Meg WolitzerTag: mindfuck
You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.
Meg WolitzerTag: signature
What does a woman have to do to be seen as a serious person?"
"Be a man, I guess," Ethan said...
Tag: be-a-man
...the Iraq war was the Ishtar of wars.
Meg WolitzerTag: over-production
You're telling me that because of the Internet, and the availability of every experience, every whim, every tool, sudden everyone's an artist? But here's the thing: if everyone's an artist, then no one is.
Meg WolitzerAnd specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?
Meg WolitzerTag: specialness
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