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“That’s where he quickly settled, the vector of his rage, his hurt, pointed directly back at himself.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“She’d hated this email because it hadn’t answered her question, because the rep had mixed metaphors, because the punctuation was chaotic, and because workhorse was one word.”
― Laura Blackett, The Very Nice Box

“I feel like such an idiot. That I ever thought I could have a really good life.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.”
― Esi Edugyan, Washington Black