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“Yes, poor man, he’s gone,” said the mayor. “And he’ll go on, planet after planet, seeking and seeking, and always and always he will be an hour late, or a half hour late, or ten minutes late, or a minute late. And finally he will miss out by only a few seconds. And when he has visited three hundred worlds and is seventy or eighty years old he will
... See moreRay Bradbury • Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
She loves feeling that every headway man tries to make
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
“Easiest job in America,” we were told.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
She sighs long and slides down into the way things need to be. “It’s good to be cooked for.”
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Shake got over Laura Klein pretty much right away, stopped working on his screenplay. Stopped talking about her altogether. “That bitch wasn’t all that,” he said the last time he brought her up. “Shit, she didn’t even know I was too young to take the damn SAT.”
Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel
