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Sonya Mukherjee, a girl who was just as quiet as me, a girl who didn’t fit in with the others, either. By the time I started the first grade, I had one friend. Still, it wasn’t until middle school that I fell in with my own tribe—music
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“Being open to possibility is being open to pain, failure, disappointment, so the temptation is to curl ourselves up like armadillos. And it is perfectly understandable.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“The days hardened like loaves: he ate them without appetite.”
― Apeirogon
― Apeirogon
“Still, an agility lurks underneath, a wiry surprise, as if he might burst away from the limp at any moment and leave it abandoned behind him.”
― Apeirogon
― Apeirogon
“Lastly, Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose by Mick Short, which is not designed to teach creative writing, but is one of the most useful books I’ve ever read. It picks apart literature to show how language is used in fiction to create certain effects.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“The roads were still a slough, and he trod the soft mud as if it were quicksand pulling him under—yet the foliage was bold enough to pass for art, and the woods exuded the pleasant smell of wet leaves, such that the entire walk felt so refreshing he would’ve considered his arrival in town enough activity to turn around and go home if he’d had no obligations to attend to.”
― The Sweetness of Water
― The Sweetness of Water
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