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She existed. She had not existed, and then she had, summoned out of whatever matter her consciousness had been made, and had stuck her small bare foot in his door. It was disastrous. There was a pain in his heart, as if it had acquired a new chamber to contain her, and so all his life he’d be carting her about.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
There was that little guy in her throat, the one that hurt when she wanted to cry.
Julia Pierpont • Among the Ten Thousand Things: A Novel
This brings up the mental aberrations because in our area there existed two types of mental aberrations: the slight, communally accepted ones and the not-so-slight, beyond-the-pale ones.
Anna Burns • Milkman
barbican
Rachel Hartman • Seraphina
sleek-haired, brown-skinned, quick and deft in all her movements; she reminded me of a wren.
Pat Barker • The Silence of the Girls: A Novel
She was at an age when the future adult rattles the child’s bones like the bars of a cage.
Maggie Shipstead • Great Circle: the dazzling, instant New York Times bestseller
In my head on this particular day are Tomasini’s String Quartet in B flat major IV, the sound of a thousand butterflies dancing in a field one late summer, the cover illustration from a Penguin edition of Our Mutual Friend, a recipe for Key Lime cheesecake, the text of an A-level Geography book, and a pocket watch.