Jim Norris
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“Maybe you could only really see that someone was beautiful when they’d grown into themselves.”
― Persepolis Rising
― Persepolis Rising
“She would power through this unsettling freak-out by eating healthy meals, keeping herself fit, reading, sleeping and doing all of the self-care that was clearly lacking in her life.”
― The Silent Wife
― The Silent Wife
“You were still trying to figure out what to do with all the rage and lust and anger that sparked up like a forest fire for no reason. Will had been exactly like them at that age—so damn desperate for someone to show him how to be a man.”
― The Last Widow
― The Last Widow
“My father despises cats. He believes them to be Democrats. He considers them to be little mean hillary clintons covered all over with feminist legfur. Cats would have abortions, if given half a chance. Cats would have abortions for fun. Consequently our own soft sinner, a soulful snowshoe named Alice, will stay shut in the bedroom upstairs, padding back and forth on cashmere paws, campaigning for equal pay, educating me about my reproductive system, and generally plotting the downfall of all men.”
― Priestdaddy
― Priestdaddy
“In the year 1712, a Captain Hussey, cruising in his little boat for right whales along Nantucket’s south shore, was blown out to sea in a fierce northerly gale.”
― In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
― In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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