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“My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.”
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“Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“JONAS DID NOT want to go back. He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games.”
― The Giver Quartet Omnibus Deluxe Collector's Edition
― The Giver Quartet Omnibus Deluxe Collector's Edition
“When we remember our former selves, there is always that little figure with its long shadow stopping like an uncertain belated visitor on a lighted threshold at the far end of some impeccably narrowing corridor.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“The Barbies with their stick legs and rocket breasts were another problem Megan had to endure. She was supposed to spend hours dressing up or playing house with them, including the darker ones she was supposed to find more relatable. In a fit she'd once tried to commit Barbicide, defaced them with colored marker pens, chopped off hair, extracted eyes with scissors and de-limbed a few... The Barbie invasion proliferated on birthdays and at Christmas, relatives talked about incredible collection, as if she'd actually chosen to have them in her life.”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
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