Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

‘You have to have something on the line, for it to be called character.’ ”

“They forgive handsome men anything.”

“The trees need our breath, and our breath needs the trees,” she continued. “As scientists we call that symbiosis, and it is a consequence of evolution. But the natural consequences of our connections to each other—that’s God, to me.

“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”