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the kind of person who lives in your memory only as a pleasing, gleaming outline, devoid of eyes. (View Highlight)

On our first date he took me to a “speakeasy” in the Village, and I put that word in quotes because the whole bar was in quotes: conspicuously nondescript entrance, bartenders dressed in vaguely steampunk outfits pouring ingredients from brown glass medicine bottles, hazardously dim lights and lurid red accents meant to evoke, I supposed, the glamour of Prohibition. (View Highlight)

He was hungry for book recommendations, though it became clear that his literary tastes tended toward the subgenre of TEDx: Daniel Kahneman, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Yuval Noah Harari. (View Highlight)

Fictional tears are no less desperate than real ones; pretending has a sadness all its own. (View Highlight)