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4 years, 7 months ago

someday we’ll look back on all this and die laughing

Wolf let go of her hand and backed away. The rest of them were propped against the church, watching Faith sort of goggle-eyed. The whole thing felt unreal. Wolf was terrified but riveted, too, in the grip of something bigger than himself. He leaned against the church. Faith stood on the wall. She h…

—p.310 The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan
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she’d dropped the cotton on someone’s white shag rug

Their ostensible goal was a Jethro Tuli concert in Rome, but really it was killing time at sixty miles an hour, everyone tumbling around in the carpeted back of the van, hitchhikers hopping in and out, a jam jar full of liquid LSD sloshing around in someone’s lap. They’d lost the eyedropper, were j…

—p.307 by Jennifer Egan
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desultory

An eerie festivity permeated Vernazza, a mix of riotous laughter and desultory music

—p.286 by Jennifer Egan
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Phoebe’s outrage dissolved into pity

He looked away. Phoebe imagined him wishing her gone, and it crossed her mind that perhaps she should make a scene the way women did in movies, holler some insult, flip the table into Wolf’s lap. But instead she thought of Carla, alone in the empty Munich apartment, left behind with nothing but the…

—p.273 by Jennifer Egan
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it thrilled her, having that power

Phoebe took his hand and led him into the nook. Tangled in the ivy at their feet were wine bottles, a pair of blue socks. As they kissed, Phoebe felt the responsibility drain off Wolf like an actual substance and it thrilled her, having that power. Wolf leaned against the wall while Phoebe unzipped…

—p.268 by Jennifer Egan