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“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Shall I project a world?”
― The Crying of Lot 49
― The Crying of Lot 49
“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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