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consumed. If possible, the room was slightly darker than the night she had come in from and a small, single candle on every table stood in place of the stars.
Ann Patchett • State of Wonder: A Novel
It wasn’t accurate to say she lost weight—it was more like she chased the weight off her body the way a farmer would chase a stray dog off his property. And like a suspicious farmer, Fawn still patrols the borders of her body, a shotgun propped in the crook of her elbow, ready to shoot any fattening food that tries to sneak back in.
Katherine Heiny • Games and Rituals
The $100,000 Salt and Pepper Shaker
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
She wrote of going to an alumnae counselor who told her, “Go back to your kitchen and stay there and make jam!”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
“The price of deviating for me turned out to be an awfully high one
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
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STILL, they dreamed.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
WILLIAM HAD BEGUN TO WORRY THAT HE NO LONGER SPARKED JOY IN his wife and that she would give him to Goodwill. It was alarmingly easy to picture. His wife would thank him for his service and then drop him off at the donation center, the one behind the store with the blankly sinister roll-up doors. Goodwill would take him in and William would live
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