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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
Did you ever read Carlo Levi?" "No." "You should-if you like Tolstoy. He wrote beautifully about Italian peasants. My people, once. He had a soul like Tolstoy. 'The future has an ancient heart.' I think I have that right."
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
You want to know the definition of a consultant? A guy who borrows your watch to tell you what time it is.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
Elena believed that reportage like that might be compelling and beautiful, but it would never gain traction in the Age of the Troll. In the Age of Mass Shootings. In the Age of the Suicide Bomb in the Crowd.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
A smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
She needed water, but it would take a tsunami to avert the hangover that awaited. She needed Advil, but she feared the red pills that she popped like M&M's at moments like this were distant. They were in the medicine bag in her own hotel room. In her own hotel.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
read Carlo Levi?
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time." She wanted to believe that; she wanted to believe it almost desperately. She wanted to be different from what she was-to be anything but what she was. But every day that grew less and less likely. Life, it seemed to her in the back of the cab, was nothing but a narrowing of opportunities. It was a funnel.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
Supposedly, whatever we do that's selfish goes with us to the grave; whatever we do that's selfless lives on.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
, sometimes you just have to bury the dead and move on.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
She knew that most men desired her because she was attractive and she was smart, but also because she was a drunk and she was easy. This one? She hoped for his sake he wasn't as different as he seemed, because she always disappointed those men quickly or broke their hearts over time."
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
...The plain unvarnished reality that we cannot escape who we are and most of the time we die as we lived.
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Chris Bohjalian _ The Flight Attendant
She knew the truth of men and women and booze: it rarely ended well for either gender, but it was the women who wound up raped.
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