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“Good'?" my aunt said. "Children are good. Dogs are good. This is theater, Jane.”
― The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
― The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
“The death of a parent, he wrote, “despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean’s bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely?”
― The Lake of Dead Languages
― The Lake of Dead Languages
“How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“As someone whose days were defined by the ten thousand ways a human can hurt, she needed, now and then, to remember that the nervous system didn't exist exclusively to feel pain.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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