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“That was it. The bracket of her bent leg against the stones. The way her mouth angled around the cigar in a grimace that was almost a smile. The sight of a woman in a well-tailored jacket and trousers. Unexpected, unimagined. A prickling sensation. A stomach-dropping, blood-fizzing, breath-stopping, knotted lurch-and-swoop that I recognized, by then, as the first faltering step towards falling in love.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“The women that survived me! They stepped out of their houses into the daylight and if I'd had any breath I would have been breathless at the sight of them. The hands of women. The ankles of women. The voices of women as they called to each other across the square.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“There have been a few moments like that on my journey - times when I've wondered if God is telling me to get off this road and embrace a different life. But then I remember that I don't believe in God and that if he does exist, then he gave me this life to begin with. What would he know?”
― Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

“She was reflected in Mom, in Valentin, in little Valentin Junior, in another hundred people: she was reflected - surprisingly sharp - in Kostya. She was Ivan Konev's nightmarish dream. She was reflected in the fate of a distance stranger - her father, who lived on the other side of town.”
― Dyachenko Marina & Sergey