“An unfamiliar emotion swelled inside her at this image. A strangely sharp pang for a place she had never visited. For a people she resembled but did not know.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“It wasn’t like chocolate, Lily thought. It was like finding water after a drought. She couldn’t drink enough, and her thirst made her ashamed, and the shame made her angry.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“The word felt dangerous, and also powerful, as if uttering it would summon someone or something”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“out of the corner of her eye she saw the group of men again. She had almost forgotten about them. Now they seemed somewhat pathetic; they were middle-aged and balding, dressed in ugly plaid shirts. There was a desperation to the way they were eyeing the girls. Whatever danger she had sensed from their attention had turned to pity,”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
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