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Slender almost to the point of clinical intervention, she had a prominent forehead and surprised eyebrows and a tortoiseshell barrette and was, like Atwater, extremely earnest and serious at all times.
David Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
They learned that there were certain things that would never be theirs: higher noses, fairer complexions, longer legs that might
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Shelley had lived for as long as she could remember in perpetual dread of being dislikeable – a fate even more terrible than being disliked, for it encompassed not only her relationships with others, but her private judgments of herself.
Eleanor Catton • Birnam Wood: A Novel
What is a country but a life sentence?