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“Fraction of a man” is a solid insult

The meet cute for the two main characters is the exact same as the beginning of “When Harry Met Sally,” down to the same college. Suffice to say, this book is ON NOTICE

I deleted the Facebook app and read 100 pages today

Day 1 of summer, time to get serious

“‘Heavenly Father, please grant me patience. And be quick.’”

“There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing… his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane.”

The “make up is false advertising” crowd is literally medieval:
“In the twelfth century, at least two theologians…tackled the hard question of what, exactly, men should do if they engaged a sex worker in good faith, only to find out later that she had been wearing make up. Both enlightened minds agreed that in such a case, the clients who hired such women would have in fact been duped.”