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Matthew Lindquist
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The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.
– Henry Moore (sculptor)
They continued on, silent and aware of the dark stretch at their backs that was the writhing ocean, furious it hadn’t claimed them. Of its emissary, the drowned dog, seething it hadn’t sunk its teeth into them. Sunny took Sonia’s hand. They had looked for each other to make sure they were safe, it was true, but the fight against the waves had been
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But if you love, you fear, thought Sonia. You fear and believe you will lose love. But if you don’t love, you also fear. You feel safe only when you are alone and cannot be betrayed, yet you feel unsafe being alone.
Sonia caught herself before she said the sentence that was never a good idea: What if you leave me?
Kiran Desai • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
They could quite easily in this moment of being alive be dead. Life was thin and terrifying on the side of not having died.
Kiran Desai • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The brother of the east wing had supported the king of Portugal and was rewarded for his work as the consul to Spain with two chairs sent by the king, each carved with the family crest of one knight, two boars, turtle doves, and Christmas stars. The brother of the west wing had supported the liberation and built a library of five thousand volumes.
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He opened the glass bookcase holding volumes so disintegrated they looked like wormy driftwood, but it was possible to make out a few titles: Gide, Montaigne, Balzac, Zweig, Machado de Assis, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Portuguese Oriental Archives in vellum.
The portrait of the dark man in white gloves and a blue military suit watched Sunny
Kiran Desai • The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
It could be our house,” said Sunny.
Sonia kept the “our” like a small star.