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There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn’t have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young.
Junot Díaz • This Is How You Lose Her
I miss and love with all my purple fist a strange girl from a flamboyant and frightening family, in many ways a flamboyant and frightening girl, perched high in the crow’s nest of the Frequent and Vigorous vessel, scanning gray electrical expanses for the lonely spout of a legitimate telephone call.
David Foster Wallace • The Broom of the System: A Novel

Was it a portrait of her, or her
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
‘Strange Fruit.’ I guess I’m just an old grouch.” My father
Laura Lippman • Wilde Lake
She mailed the marked-up copy to Harold Ross, the founding editor, and Ross was said to have bellowed. What he bellowed was “Find this bitch and hire her!”
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
A wild woman, her mother called her. A shocking piece of work. And so she is. Lord have mercy.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
actuarial tables.
Ann Patchett • State of Wonder: A Novel
transmogrification.