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Sawkill Girls

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When Mischief Came to Town

by Katrina Nannestad

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Glensheen's Daughter, The Marjorie Congdon Story

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Helium by Rudy Francisco

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so she drops the quiet like a suitcase full of habits that no one wants to keep

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“Not a single cell of his body was the same as it had been in 1995. But he was still himself, just as I was still, despite everything, my teenage self. I had grown over her like rings around the core of a tree, but she was still there.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You

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“It was entirely possible (it slowly occurred to me) that my empathy and tenacity were not what had gotten me through Granby, but were things Granby had given me. Things it had meted out to anyone willing. How many times did I have to learn the same lesson? You’re not special. And that’s okay.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

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“You don’t have to have been friends with someone to be old friends with them later.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

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“Things are moving!” Alder said. “Things are shaking.” I said, “I don’t want you to get your hopes up.” Alder stood, brushed off his jeans. He said, “I’m a Black man in America. My hopes aren’t up.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

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“My friend Elise, who loves astrology, told me I’d probably experienced my Uranus opposition. It happens to everyone in their early forties, she said—a huge shake-up, a burn-it-all-down time, voluntary or involuntary, that rearranges your life. “Some people have an affair and buy a sports car,” she said. “But you, you go vigilante. I love it. And you’ve never been so . . . energetic. It’s like you’re turbocharged now.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

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