“The social network, the only place that doesn’t physically exist but u can still live vicariously through someone who is only virtual.”
“It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.”
“It had to be U. U. was the only town I could still bear, the one spot in the atlas I'd already absorbed head-on. When you take too many of your critical hits in one place, that place can no longer hurt you.”
“It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”
“Live life vicariously through yourself.”
“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.”