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“And then later, as the ambulance went faster, Abel felt not fear but a strange exquisite joy, the bliss of things finally and irretrievably out of his control, unpeeled, unpeeling now. Yet there was a streak of something else, as though just outside his reach was the twinkle of a light, as though a Christmas window was there; this puzzled him and pleased him, and in his state of tired ecstasy it seemed almost to come to him.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible

“And now people were watching other people watching other people play video games. It was like a Darwin fish parade of sloth.”
― Nathan Hill, Wellness

“This is Lucy.” She added, almost playfully, “Lucy comes from nothing.” I took no offense, and really, I take none now. But I think: No one in this world comes from nothing.”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“To deny my husband any chance of comforting me—oh, it was an unspeakably awful thing. And I had not known. This is the way of life: the many things we do not know until it is too late.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!