Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
the untouched glass of water on the coffee table filling with sunlight.
Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)
She knew Ernie lived nearby with his wife and four sons. The passage of time, and the details that spun some moments into unforgettable memories and others into thin air, traveled with Sylvie—the swirling atmosphere of her own life—
Ann Napolitano • Hello Beautiful: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The memory of that childhood afternoon had sustained me for years; it was as if—sick with loneliness for my mother—I’d imprinted on her like some orphaned animal; when in fact, joke on me, she’d been doped up and knocked lamb-daffy from a head injury, ready to throw her arms around the first stranger who’d walked in.
Donna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Hannah, her small heart awash in pity, reaches up to take her hand, but her mother doesn’t notice. In a moment Hannah contents herself by clasping her own fingers behind her back.
Celeste Ng • Everything I Never Told You
a Coming of Age story, or Bildungsroman, or maybe a Rags to Riches story—but