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“He was quiet, holding that string and kite with everything he had. The way he looked. Eyes raised up, body tethered by one long thread to the big stormy sky, the whole of him up there with his words, talking to whoever was listening. I’ve not seen a sight to match it. No bones of his had ever been shoved in a feed bag. The man was a giant.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.”
― Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

“Editorial made more money than publicity, and they paid the men more anyway, and I had no dependents, so by comparison I was rich.”
― Ann Patchett, Whistler

“She was raw sexuality, maybe ten pounds bigger than she should have been but those pounds were exquisitely distributed.”
― Harlan Coben, Fade Away