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TJ Klune • The House in the Cerulean Sea
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
If Sam had any strong sexual identifications, straight or gay, there would have been a dozen co-ops delighted to have him. The fact that Sam chose to live in an all-male nonspecific probably meant that, underneath the friendliness, the intelligence, the power, he was probably rotten with neurosis; behind him would be a string of shattered communal
... See moreSamuel R. Delany • Trouble on Triton
‘I didn’t get you anything,’ said Nathan, with the good cheer of a sinner already absolved, ‘I forgot.’ Then Ronald Macaulay came in with holiness in the pleats of his trousers. The atmosphere thinned, as if the room had been elevated nearer heaven.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?
Sarah Waters • The Paying Guests
Andy Williams tape. “Hawaiian Wedding Song” was just ending as I walked in, and “Canadian Sunset”
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke offers profound insights on creativity, solitude, love, and the inner journey of the artist, encouraging self-discovery and deep reflection on one's artistic impulses.
kbachuntitled.files.wordpress.comShe thinks of Dexter, sheltering from the rain on the steps of the new house, looking at his watch, impatient; he'll wonder where I am, she thinks. He'll worry. Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever."
One Day