Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings Quotes
After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.
Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?
But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.
There was no life Dennis burned to live except, it seemed, a life that wasn't depressed.
Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?”“Hmm, ” said Jules. “Yes. The Holocaust.
The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand at all.
Dennis was present, still present, and this, she thought as she stayed landed against him, was no small talent.
Jealousy was essentially "I want what you have, " while envy was "I want what you have, but I also want to take it away so you can't have it.
Twitter, " said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.
No, of course not. I just feel content, ” she said carefully.“That’s an old person’s word, ” said Ethan.