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Mark Cofta

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“I’m an open book,” I say, thinking of all the men who have found it illegible.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

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“Thoughts are often false. A feeling's always real. Not true, just real”
― Susan Choi, Trust Exercise

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“The conversation went on for another half hour, before this man's girlfriend, who had not said much of anything until then, remarked, Being a woman, you can't just say you don't want a child. You have to have some big plan or idea of what you're going to do instead. And it better be something great. And you had better be able to tell it convincingly - before it even happens - what the arc of your life will be.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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“I have a soft spot for anyone who works so hard on a flower garden; you can't eat what you grow, you just make yourself and everyone else happy by it.”
― Tom Bouman

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“It’s not that I want exactly this, to have a husband or home security system that, for the length of our marriage, never goes off. It’s that there are gray, anonymous hours like this. Hours when I am desperate, when I am ravenous, when I know how a star becomes a void.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

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