There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still exist?' 'It really is,' said Bev. (p. 222) - Douglas Coupland

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)

I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.

I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!' I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.