We stand there, quiet, recognizing each other’s incompleteness.
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Recognizing Flaws
R
Power Equivalence
P
Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Learning from History
L
History is the one thing that might make us wise.
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Realness and Apathy
R
I can’t tell if she’s actually real, or if she’s stopped caring if she’s real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Strength in Defiance
S
Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold on to.
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Rediscovering Self
R
What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Avoiding Displacement
A
No one wants to be part of a lost generation.
Jennifer Egan – A Visit From the Goon Squad
Dream Souring
D
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
Jonathan Fanzen – Freedom
Personal Freedom
P
You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.
Jonathan Fanzen – Freedom
Emotional Resilience
E
What you could bear at the end of the best day, you couldn’t at the beginning of the worst.
Jonathan Fanzen – Freedom