Quotation

“But we don’t get what we want, just what we can handle.” === “The only people who ask questions like ‘Did he want to be something besides a bartender?’ are people who can become whatever they want. The rest of us are just Americans.” === Have you seen me? No, I haven’t. No one has. No one did. No one will. Even if you’d lived a full life. Didn’t matter—you vanished the moment you were born. === I don’t know you, she thought. But I know this moment. I’ve lived it. === Even a penny can shine, I guess, when it’s newly minted.” === He fit the look of the profligate poet, the drug-addled painter-genius, the musician who’d die in a car crash the day after he signed his big record contract.