"Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something truly new. Notable American Women contains strains of Donald Antrim and Samuel Beckett but is beholden to neither; it is a brave, original book."

-- Myla Goldberg

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“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
“Nothing will ever take away the power and resolve and fearlessness of the great city of Boston. We will get through this. It will take time. But we will get through this.”
“I guess we romanticize the loser.”
“I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'”
“People hook up. People don't hook up. I don't judge.”
“A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.”
“Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more”
“That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.”

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