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In even the best families, loved ones—however inadvertently—manage to destroy each other’s hope.
Mary Karr • The Art of Memoir
“Gotta go. It’s probably Rocío coming to reiterate that I’m not her real mother. Or that after you die the enzymes in your digestive tract devour your body from the inside.” “Of all your colleagues, this girl is my absolute favorite.” “She was caught porking. On my desk.” “How does she constantly top herself?”
Ali Hazelwood • Love on the Brain
Writing is hard, there are so many approaches. And you never capture the surprise of life, the way things build up on each other, meaning upon meaning.
Maryse Holder, Edith Jones, • Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holder's Letters From Mexico
dipsomaniacal tragedian progressively crippled by obsessions with death
David Foster Wallace • Infinite Jest
then at intervals after, as the air rusts it brown.
Julia Pierpont • Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel
at the midpoint the ego-driven conscious want is abandoned for the more nourishing recognition of need – the story thus becoming a tale of how the protagonist masters the sudden rise to consciousness of that which is buried within.