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“How many books do we read from which the writer lacked courage to tie off the umbilical cord? How many gifts do we open from which the writer neglected to remove the price tag? Is it pertinent, is it courteous, for us to learn what it cost the writer personally?”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“no iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“We listen to NPR for the first two hours on the road, the strange comfort of bad news reported in reasonable tones,”
― Jami Attenberg, All Grown Up

“I thought of the way mother cats carried their kittens by biting their napes and swinging them around, and I wanted to know what my teeth would do to that tender estate.”
― K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories