
Beautyland: A Novel

This emboldens Adina to make the mistake countless writers before her have made. She attempts to write about New York City.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
The ego of the human male is by far the most dangerous aspect of human society. THIS HAS BEEN WELL-DOCUMENTED.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
Her mother’s voice makes Adina feel lonelier than when she doesn’t hear it. She tries to be out when she calls.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
One particular model on Anthropologie’s website appears to be in perpetual agony. She startles Adina as she scrolls the store’s wares: a smile, a beatific glance, then her: devastated. In a hip-length top, a flowy jumpsuit, a drop-waisted wrap dress, she is inconsolable. So different from the other models, pleasant and isolated in their editorial
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When it was time to decide the official food of movie-watching, human beings did not go for Fig Newtons or caramel, foods that are silent, but popcorn, the loudest sound on Earth.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
There is nothing uglier than sin. Sin: Dirt on your mind’s floor you must always be sweeping.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
I quantum miss you. I miss you in the deeper level of reality where distance has no meaning.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
decepticated,
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
People with money list what they did without. Poor people list what they had.