“It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.”

“She nodded, jotting something in her notebook.You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?”Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.”

“... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

“I knew all this, I understood the rules, but still, nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

“People are complicated," she continued, "and the ones who aren't are boring." "Then maybe I'm boring."We looked at each other, and in a genuinely sad voice, she said, "Maybe you are.”

“Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.”

“Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.”