How we cite our quotes: Chapter.Paragraph
Quote #4
I smiled robotically as she pressed her face against my cheek and took a photo with her phone, the fake, camera-click sound waking me. (13.98)
It goes without saying that Nick exercised very poor New Millennium Common Sense here. In the day and age of viral photos, you don't take a selfie with a strange woman while searching for your missing wife. You just don't do that. Unsurprisingly, the photo ends up on Ellen Abbott Live, further tarnishing the public's image of him.
Quote #5
I sat in the doorstep of a vacant storefront. It occurred to me that I had brought Amy to the end of everything. We were literally experiencing the end of a way of life, a phrase I'd applied only to New Guinea tribesmen and Appalachian glassblowers. (15.53)
Nick's probably being a little overdramatic here—after all, enough people still prefer to read print newspapers, magazines, and books over electronic editions or eBooks that they'll probably hang out awhile longer. Still, though, the Internet is a major deathblow to his trade. Just as ancient practices and traditions die out, time will inevitably erase aspects of Nick's work. Heck, Borders is already gone.
Quote #6
Andie was twenty-three. I assumed my words, my voice, even photos of me were captured on various electronica. (19.73)
What's really weird about the Andie Affair—and there's a lot about it that's weird—is that Nick, who blames technology for the loss of his job, gets with a girl who embodies the current generation's attitude toward his enemy. Her character is a commentary on how the next era of soon-to-be adults views technology: as a way of life that their very existence depends on.