Sublime
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He was so good-looking, and a beautiful person, male or female, can get away with saying and doing things that would destroy a plainer one.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Talents: winner of the Nebula Award (Parable 2)
She felt too young to be washed up, but then again, she had ridden an improbable string of luck. Her whole life, in fact, had been a gift of good fortune—she had been given whiteness. Blonde hair, a pretty face, a nice figure, a rich father. She’d sobbed out of speeding tickets, flirted her way to endless second chances. Her whole life, a bounty of
... See moreBrit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
if I wanted to be the center of the universe I’d have a dog.
Ursula K. Le Guin • No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
The girl in cotton bodice and her jeans gone fugitive at the knees.
David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel
Wherever her family went, she became the node that connected all wandering Americans worth knowing.
Hernan Diaz • Trust
inchoate
Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
the tall weed gets cut.
Barbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: A Novel
