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"While safety is important for survival issues and for developing emotions, it is no challenge to our power if everything we do is already removed from any real risk."

"The future should grow from the past, not obliterate it."

"Billionaires were the mark of a sick society. They shouldn't exist. There was no moral structure in which such a vast accumulation of wealth should be acceptable."

"Arguing fervently about a world that was not actually the world struck me as vaguely immoral."

"I couldn't imagine making millions of dollars every year, then choosing to spend my time stirring shit of social media."

"Mad that tech entrepreneurs like him seemed constitutionally unable to resist cannibalizing music, books, subcultures - whatever made life interesting. Reading wasn't about mainlining information."

"'I never worried about making a living,' he said, 'but I've done thinking about make a life. It's hard to know the difference sometimes, and it must be getting harder, judging by all them that don't know the difference now.'
'What is the difference?'
'Best way to tell it is that if you're trying to make a killing, what's going to get killed is your life.'"

"The isolating immensity reveals what lies covered in places noisier, busier, more filled up. For me, what I saw revealed was this (only this): a man nearly desperate because his significance had come to lie within his own narrow ambit."

"I tried to summarize the frantic, self-important work culture in Silicon Valley, how everyone was optimizing their bodies for longer lives, which could then be spent productively; how it was frowned upon to acknowledge that a tech job was a transaction rather than a noble mission or a seat on a rocket ship."

"My brain had become a trash vortex, representations upon representations."

"The platforms, designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data, inspired an infinite scroll. They encouraged a cultural impulse to fill all spare time with someone else's thoughts. The internet was a collective howl, an outlet for everyone to prove that they mattered."

"Compared to other women I'd met, I had it good. But the bar was so, so low."

"There was too much space to demonstrate vulnerability, personhood."

"I was always fixing things for them, tiptoeing around their vanities, cheering them up. Affirming, dodging, confiding, collaborating. Advocating for their career advancement; ordering them pizza. My job had placed me, a self-identified feminist, in a position of ceaseless, professionalized deference to the male ego."

"I felt like a piece of software myself, a bot: instead of being an artificial intelligence, I was an intelligent artifice, an empathetic text snippet or a warm voice, giving instructions, listening comfortingly."

"Like the patron saint of mislaid sympathies, I speculated that perhaps they were just lonely."

"My desires were generic. I wanted to find my place in the world, and be independent, useful, and good. I wanted to feel affirmed, confident, and valued. I wanted to be taken seriously. Mostly I didn't want anyone to worry about me."

"Rosemarie wants us to fight her cause and we're not adverse but none of her poems talk about working together, none of them talk about love and that's what makes the girls and me strong. The fact that we love so deeply. I don't believe a single one of us would be here if we didn't fight for each other."

So cute and uplifting!! I fell like it touched on a lot of current issues but didn't take away from the plot at all.

"There's a way to be a journo, even for a gossip blog or show, and still be a good person. She may be jaded, and I may be naive, but it has to be true."

"My feet take me away from the van, and I hate how unresolved everything feels. But maybe that's what real life is like. Unlike when you're stuck with family or friends for so long you have to make amends."

"And god, how I miss Brooklyn, but I feel okay here. And okay is so much better than I thought it would be."

"That's what makes our relationship so different from any other I've had. That's what makes it so special. I'm learning, not fixing. For once, I'm listening - or at least, I'm trying to."

"Nostalgia is a blindfold."

"Taking my time to get ready makes me feel better about myself. Yes, I notice more pimples this way, but I also feel my skin moisturizing, and I get to flip my bangs up in the front. It's my signature.
And this is what tethers me to Brooklyn, to home. It's the same process. The same steps. Sure, I'm doing this in a bigger house thousands of miles away, but for now. I feel okay. Only okay, but that's okay."

"His gaze meets mine, and an ache pulls at my chest, reminding me of Jeremy, of Deb. Of crushes, and of falling."

"American ingenuity was a response to our lack of manpower. In a huge country with a small population we needed to invent machines to do some of the work."

"Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for awhile. Maybe the only gift is a change to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more."

"Sir Isaac Newton was caught in the bubble and lost a lot of money. 'I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies,' he said, 'but not the madness of people.'"

"But the problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact most of the time there were simply ways, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on."