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Book cover for Happening
Yet neither my baccalauréat nor my degree in literature had waived that inescapable fatality of the working-class – the legacy of poverty – embodied by both the pregnant girl and the alcoholic. Sex had caught up with me, and I saw the thing ...more
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Taylor Jenkins Reid
“I don’t believe in soul mates anymore and I’m not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who’s suffering from the same stuff you are.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

George Eliot
“I should like to make life beautiful – I mean everybody’s life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

“In New York I’d had a perennially sawdust-encrusted sculpture professor, who told my class, ‘You’ll know you’re a New Yorker when you have a dream where you discover another room in your apartment, through a closet, or behind a chest of drawers – if your subconscious is carving out legroom, you’re one of us.”
Calla Henkel, Other People’s Clothes

Lucie McKnight Hardy
“Small, hunched, dark-haired, he scuttled from the car. A beetle of a man.”
Lucie McKnight Hardy, Water Shall Refuse Them

N.K. Jemisin
“All those rural people who hate cities are afraid of something legit; cities really are different. They make a weight on the world, a tear in the fabric of reality, like . . . like black holes, maybe.”
N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

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