Caroline Bleeke

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Jenny Offill
“Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say.

That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill
“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine.”
Patricia Storace

Jenny Offill
“Once when he was still young, I saw a bit of his scalp showing through his hair and I was afraid. But it was just a cowlick. Now sometimes it shows through for real, but I feel only tenderness.”
Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“A dinner made by a great cook is a vision of the world to come.”
Patricia Storace

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1,383 books | 132 friends

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543 books | 53 friends

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Finola ...
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319 books | 71 friends

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