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When the headlights appeared, they were distant enough that, at first, it seemed like a pair of flashlights.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Still, sometimes, Kennedy felt like a daughter who belonged to someone else, a child Stella was borrowing while she loaned a life that never should have been hers.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
The appearance of calm demanded an endless campaign of violent intervention.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
Toughness rendered tender, even beautiful.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
They were so artlessly beautiful, even right out of bed. Where did this ease come from? How could they be so at home, so sure of themselves, even in pajamas?
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
She was always enamored of someone and could not live otherwise.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Because she saw that he was, in essence, alone. In his vast solitude she would find hers—and with it, the freedom her overbearing parents had always denied her.
Hernan Diaz • Trust
thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee.
Celeste Ng • Everything I Never Told You
Fine clothes could hide a turbulent soul.