“And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.”

“She began to sacrifice that old identity to live in her new one. It was the new life, after all, that everyone wanted.”

“She needed friends, and a life, and this is how you acquired those things: by talking to strangers. Everyone was a stranger, all on equal footing in strangerhood.”

“It was becoming difficult to separate her own decisions from those made by others, for her, on behalf of themselves.”

“You know what this means?"Everyone does, but nobody answers.”

“Would they have a life together anymore, after tonight? Or was this it? The end?”

“This was globalization: everyone everywhere was interchangeable. You could be anyone anywhere to do anything.”