“It was his awareness of the people represented by those lights, a half million people or more, with different names and different backgrounds, strangers to one another, living, struggling, dying, each one an individual.

Yet how easily their individuality could be discarded. And if it could be stripped away, then was it even real?

Or was it only a disguise, a persona - complex and subtle, yes, rich with nuance, elaborately refined, but nonetheless a mere facade?”

-stealing faces

my current read. definitely a page turner.