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She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of smoke.
James McBride • The Good Lord Bird
The “one precise, unique note, tracing a sound
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Was she the dream? Was Nao the one writing her into being?
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Now I was distressed that nothing of me would endure through time.
Elena Ferrante • The Story of the Lost Child: Neapolitan Novels, Book Four
sleek-haired, brown-skinned, quick and deft in all her movements; she reminded me of a wren.
Pat Barker • The Silence of the Girls: A Novel
“And these places you go, the people you find, do you come to care for them? Or do you only study them, like strange shells you might find on the beach?”
Nicola Griffith • Ammonite
