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Was it inherited, their compulsion? This shared need to be productive, to do good, to right some wrong? He wanted his life to mean something; he had yet to prove it.
Rachel Khong • Real Americans: A novel
I wanted to live without thinking about anything for a while, to let my hands move on their own, churning out normal, “commercial” portraits one after the other. In the process, I could gain some financial stability. I didn’t know how long I could keep that up. I couldn’t predict the future. But for the time being, at least, that’s what I wanted. T
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The question that was the pure liquid element of the portal—who am I failing to protect?—had found its stopped-clock answer.
Patricia Lockwood • No One Is Talking About This: A Novel
I want us to wonder what stories we’re most hungry for, and why; to consider what forms our fears take; and to ask ourselves whose pain we still look away from.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
In fact I have abandoned altogether that kind of pointless entry; instead I tell what some would call lies. “That’s simply not true,” the members of my family frequently tell me when they come up against my memory of a shared event. “The party was not for you, the spider was not a black widow, it wasn’t that way at all .” Very likely they are right... See more