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I deduced that Johanna was probably an Alice. You can learn a lot by observing how people hang out with their friends. She laughed like a hyena, and they were obsessing over some obscure book, and they were so raw and cute. I’d never been as intrigued by a human being before.
Henrik Karlsson • Looking for Alice
Whereas the millennial women of Instagram — the millennial women associated with the “that-girl” trope — would strike the perfect pose and use filters to enhance their natural beauty, Gen-Zs use their phone cameras to distort the natural ideal of the human face, obscuring their features with emojis, cartoon glitter, surreal lighting and other disto... See more
the critic • The death of Ideals
April had been to several private schools and each time had been asked to leave. She didn’t believe in authority and was a born radical.
Alice Hoffman • The Rules of Magic
Hannah drove a battered black Toyota that had been pulled apart and put back together so many times it constituted a philosophical conundrum.
M. L. Rio • Graveyard Shift: A Novella
Lady Plackett took the binoculars. Her sight was less keen than her daughter’s but she too agreed that the girl was Ruth. She turned to Miss Somerville. ‘This is unfortunate,’ she said. ‘And quite irregular. The girl is a Jewish refugee who seems to think that she is entitled to every sort of privilege.’
Eva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
He would know her handwriting anywhere.