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“Logistics were already crowding in, making her tired—this is what people like Simon got to avoid, the constant churn of anxieties somehow both punishingly urgent and punishingly boring.”
― Emma Cline, The Guest

“Australians in general are pretty casual about traveling. If you grow up there, you basically get trained in long-haul flights—fifteen hours, twenty-four—it’s what we’re used to. For us, eight hours across the Atlantic seems like a doddle.”
― Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book

“friend’s adoration. How had he been so oblivious? Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it. Cyrus understood that now, and stepped.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“How he really saw Cyrus, really heard him, beneath all his beneaths.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!