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“It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn't work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It's like plucking a grey hair.”
― The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
― The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
“A beige cat came down the stairs like caramel seeping out of a Caramilk bar.”
― The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
― The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
“Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters?
Old person worry: What if everything I do does?”
― Weather
Old person worry: What if everything I do does?”
― Weather
“Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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