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Emily St. John Mandel
“A revelation earned only in hindsight: beauty can have a corrosive effect on character. It is possible to coast for some years on no more than a few polished lines and a dazzling smile, and those years are formative.”
Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

Courtney Milan
“It took some real inattention to detail, reality, and history to call either the Chinese or the varied nations that made up what Britain called India uncivilized, but then English propriety was that rare combination of inattention to everything that mattered coupled with a minute fascination with everything that didn’t.”
Courtney Milan, The Devil Comes Courting

Alexis Schaitkin
“Nobody likes a snob, but everybody likes the discernment that allows for snobbery.”
Alexis Schaitkin, Saint X

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“I thought about how the world can be anything and how said it is that it's this.”
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

Kirstin Valdez Quade
“She refuses to look at La Conquistadora, the wooden statue of the Blessed Mother tucked high and snug in an opulent niche in her chapel to the left of the altar. The conquistadors brought her from Spain, hauled her around with them like a lucky charm as they invaded the peoples of the New World, and she served as a placid, unmoved witness to the violence they wrought. No wonder the Spaniards loved her so: O Conquistadora, Our Lady of the Rosary, Blessed Mother, Adoring Mother, Our Mother of Excuses and Turning a Blind Eye, Our Lady of Willful Ignorance and Boys Will Be Boys, Our Lady of Endless, Long-Suffering Hope.”
Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds

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