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turned out it wasn’t the pineapple or the self-discipline because she found out she really had cancer, but she slimmed down to wearing a bitch’n-hot Size Two before she died.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
She was eating a Three Musketeers Candy Bar. She was wearing tri-focal lenses in harlequin frames,
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
“She caught up with herself,”
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
So I started inhabiting my own body again, because it was not going to go away.
Sarah Hepola • Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
The simplicity of her job was a kind of GABA regulator, she realized, de-spiking her moods while she dealt with whatever the fuck was going to happen next.
Annalee Newitz • Autonomous: A Novel
She was always enamored of someone and could not live otherwise.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Tim Kreider (TIMKREIDER.COM) is an essayist and cartoonist. His most recent book is We Learn Nothing,