"The journalist is beautiful in the manner of people who spend an immense amount of money on personal maintenance. She…"

"It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity…"

"She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her."

"Tesch seems to be someone who mistakes rudeness for intellectual rigor."

"Miranda is aware of how pretentious this sounds, but is it still pretentious if it’s true?"

"“Why would he marry a twelve-year-old?” “He had a dream where God told him he was to repopulate the earth.” “Of cours…"

"“They call themselves the light.” “What about it?” “If you are the light,” she said, “then your enemies are darkness,…"

"Hell is the absence of the people you long for."

"Twenty-third Street wasn’t busy—a little early for the lunch crowd—but he kept getting trapped behind iPhone zombies,…"

"The horse, Bernstein, was missing half his tail, because the first cello had just restrung his bow last week."