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She preferred becoming accustomed to any number of ugly faces to remaining in her cage.
Octavia E. Butler • Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago
“Dao reminds me of my father.” It wasn’t just that he was the same age as our fathers. It was also his trim and discreet appearance that made him familiar. His nondescript appearance was as much for camouflage as it was for comfort, cultivated to project a benign and anonymous professionalism. His appearance said: I am not one to take up space nor
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Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
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Barry H. Lopez • Of Wolves and Men (Scribner Classics)
Her temperament was distinctly familial to me. She could be me, if I could unzip my skin and release all my fury. If Erin brought out the intellect in me (and my petty envy), Helen brought out what was raw in me.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Love was paring myself down, again and again, until I was as smooth as a block of new marble, ready to become whatever the next one needed me to be.
Gina Chung • Sea Change
The Uilsa story reveals his strong, almost violent emotional side and his ability to tap the Dionysian spirit; the ethics essay reflects his lifelong interest not in epistemology but in ethics. Already his question is not “What can I know?” but “How should I live?”10
Robert D. Richardson • Emerson: The Mind on Fire
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