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Hannah drove a battered black Toyota that had been pulled apart and put back together so many times it constituted a philosophical conundrum.
M. L. Rio • Graveyard Shift: A Novella
I deduced that Johanna was probably an Alice. You can learn a lot by observing how people hang out with their friends. She laughed like a hyena, and they were obsessing over some obscure book, and they were so raw and cute. I’d never been as intrigued by a human being before.
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
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
Jo March of Little Women is one, the eponymous Anne of Green Gables another, Betsy Ray of the beloved Betsy-Tacy books a third.
Betty Smith • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
For Daisy, for being there from the beginning.
And for Henry, for promising to stay until the end.
— Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
All this time past, the years lived through,