“It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell the perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the french word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not its smell on the skin, but its sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its leaving.”
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“Well guess what motherfucker, you just got caught.”
“It's not about hacking computers anymore, it's about hacking human souls.”
“If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.”
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”