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Gulchekhra, our “host mother”—they really called her that, as if we were tapeworms—came outside.
Elif Batuman • The Possessed
‘Cat Person’ by Kristen Roupenian, a short
Catherine Gray • The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
it was a little broken and had a sort of cracked ring; at first, indeed, there seemed to be an unhealthy note in it; but there was in it also genuine deep passion, and youthfulness and strength and sweetness, and a sort of charmingly careless, mournful grief.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
She will relocate her love for him like a spider from her house, gently.
Marie-Helene Bertino • Beautyland: A Novel
My wings were clipped so intensely I could feel the blood dripping right off them.
Jami Attenberg • I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
Sense of all the windows and doors of her life flung open. Everything exposed to the light and air. Nothing protected, nothing left to be protected anymore. A wild woman, her mother called her. A shocking piece of work. And so she is. Lord have mercy.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: A Novel
And look at that: the more I know about her, the less inclined I feel to pass a too-harsh or premature judgment. Some essential mercy in me has been switched on.