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Book cover for Blue Sisters
The silence deepened in the room, that curious quality of quiet when you can feel the attention from every person present deepen.
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Lisa Taddeo
“Throughout history, men have broken women’s hearts in a particular way. They love them or half-love them and then grow weary and spend weeks and months extricating themselves soundlessly, pulling their tails back into their doorways, drying themselves off, and never calling again. Meanwhile, women wait. The more in love they are and the fewer options they have, the longer they wait, hoping that he will return with a smashed phone, with a smashed face, and say, I’m sorry, I was buried alive and the only thing I thought of was you, and feared that you would think I’d forsaken you when the truth is only that I lost your number, it was stolen from me by the men who buried me alive, and I’ve spent three years looking in phone books and now I have found you. I didn’t disappear, everything I felt didn’t just leave. You were right to know that would be cruel, unconscionable, impossible. Marry me.”
Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

Herman Koch
“For women, earrings are sort of what shaving is for men: the bigger the earrings, the more significant, the more festive, the evening.”
Herman Koch, The Dinner

Lisa Taddeo
“When you're young you can do almost anything and it won't be sad.”
Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

Jennifer Egan
“When I use people I know, all of my instincts seem to go dead, and if I’m getting anywhere near myself then I can’t do it. It’s actually a real weakness! I hate writing personal essays, I don’t think I’m especially good at it. I like just encountering [my characters], discovering them. I love the escape of just being surrounded by all these people who are nothing like people I know. But I don’t find it hard to be in the middle of a different life, with a different set of habits and way of thinking and talking. That seems to come easily to me.”
Jennifer Egan

“While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Alexander Steele, Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School

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