I Would Be Doing This Anyway Quotes

“she had that rich-girl demeanor, treating life like a video game she’d already played through twice.”
― Jia Tolentino, I Would Be Doing This Anyway

“I sat dead eyed in the pool house, wondering if I was in fact wrong about everything, if visibility was actually just like money, where if you had enough of it there was a threshold of security below which you would never really fall.”
― Jia Tolentino, I Would Be Doing This Anyway

“I was shocked at first by how intrusive all of this was, but then again, Seraphina had always come off mildly impervious; she had this carelessness that allowed her to do things that I would’ve berated myself for in the shower for years.”
― Jia Tolentino, I Would Be Doing This Anyway

“they made money by constantly mining personal data on the users who downloaded the company’s appealing minimalist app.”
― Jia Tolentino, I Would Be Doing This Anyway

“She’d captioned the photos of her “ultimate self-quarantine” with an affiliate link that gave people discounts on their own escapes from the city, as well as a meditation about how, in the midst of crisis, nothing was more important than protecting your mental health.”
― Jia Tolentino, I Would Be Doing This Anyway

“I would cling to the money that trickled down from Seraphina, which came from her mother’s inherited ranchland, which had once been Mexican territory, claimed through the same strain of imperialism that brought the American army to Vietnam to cause the destruction that brought my parents to the States.”
― Jia Tolentino, I Would Be Doing This Anyway

“We all ended up getting margaritas after class, and for the next six weeks formed a meaningless alliance; then everyone else came back to campus, and we never hung out regularly again.”
― Jia Tolentino, I Would Be Doing This Anyway