eggers

Then why are you talking about exhibitionism? It's a ridiculous term. Someone wants to celebrate their existence and you call it exhibitionism. It's niggardly. If you don't want someone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. (217)

Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. New York: Vintage, 2001.

eggers

But look at it this way: stomach cancer is genetic, passed more down the female side of our family than otherwise, but because according to Beth and me my mother was done in by dyspepsia, the dyspepsia caused by swallowing too much of our tumult and cruelty, we are determined not to swallow anything, to not keep anything putrefying down there, soaking in its juices, bile eating bile... we are purgers, Beth and I. I don't hold on to anything anymore. Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore. (210)

Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. New York: Vintage, 2001.

eggers

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. (175)

Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. New York: Vintage, 2001.

eggers

All together, our floor, our building, it has something, is bursting, is not just a place where people are working but a place where people are creating and working to change the very way we live. (170)

Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. New York: Vintage, 2001.