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She hadn’t wanted to take the fifty dollars a month alimony. It was the lawyer’s idea. She found herself reliving the moment when Clarence picked up the poker and started for her. And other moments like it.
William Maxwell • So Long, See You Tomorrow: Virtage International Edition (Vintage International)
Olive had told this story so often that it was like reciting lines from a play.
Emily St. John Mandel • Sea of Tranquility: A novel
A coming baby shed lustre on everyone connected with it.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
She chose me from among all the other children pried loose from their mothers and fathers.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
and he said this as if it were an incongruity
Anna Burns • Milkman: A Novel
a missing side tooth, which he claimed had been knocked out
Margaret Atwood • The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 2)
She might be very young, or her own age.
Jean McNeil • The Dhow House
She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.