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Don’t cause distress, she said. Don’t remind people of a loss. “Do you understand, Cady? Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart
That kind of performance, more than any other more legible aspect, is both how and where these people earn their astronomical salaries; the work of squeezing quality and dignity and concern out of the labor is automated, or something very near to it, but the services of a stern man's face are required in the moments when that work delivers the eruptions of tragedy and carnage that it always does. Someone has to look ashamed, and also ensure that the shameful stuff doesn't stop, or slow.
How Will the Golden Age of “Making It Worse” End?
defector.com
Sadie laughed a bit to herself, thinking this was what it was like to play someone else’s game: to have the illusion of choice, without actual choice.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
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