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Perhaps, she told herself with a quickening of excitement, it would have to be contrived. Women were often able to arrange things that men would have thought impossible.
“Sometimes partial kindness kills a person as bad as partial knowin.' Judy said this while she hugged the dress. "But then sometimes partial kindness and partial knowin' is the two best things in the world.”
― Mother of Pearl
― Mother of Pearl
“The Negro on saxophone blew out a language older than English and the glasses on the tables trembled”
― Mother of Pearl
― Mother of Pearl
“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Where the Wild Things Are
― Where the Wild Things Are
“What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“It was the cheapest kind of rebuke, to call a woman ugly, but one to which small boys and grown men seemed equally quick to stoop when feeling challenged.”
― The Summer Before the War
― The Summer Before the War
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