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Your godparents, also city people, live a mile down the road. She has red hair and cat’s-eye glasses; he is bald and does one voice to impersonate all four Beatles.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)
Gillian Flynn • Gone Girl: A Novel
“A man must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being.” (I guess she would know.)
Claire Dederer • Monsters
But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.
Colson Whitehead • The Nickel Boys
subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
The next century would be like this, he told her. The rich moving away from cities, locked behind giant gates like medieval lords building moats.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Esther Perel
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
was reminded of one of Erma Bombeck’s subtitles: Too Tired for an Affair.