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“We are that fraction of old magic that remains.”
Andrew Sean Greer • Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books Book 2)
They were sitting, this evening, on either side of Charles Holmes, who was an Englishman, and who, from shyness, talked and listened with a habitual vagueness, glancing at Dora, his wife, sitting opposite.
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, • Collected Stories
Woman’s sympathy should be complete, untainted by the reproach of common sense.
Shirley Hazzard • The Great Fire: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)

There was an order of misery, misery tucked inside miseries, and you were meant to keep track.
Colson Whitehead • The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
She thought that the digressions in the minds of men were endless. How many disguises were assumed before they could face themselves. How many justifications made in order that they might simply please themselves. How dangerous they were in their self-righteousness—infinitely more dangerous than women, who could never persuade themselves to the sam
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Fiona Wright • The Last Migration by Charlotte McConaghy review– aching, poignant and pressing debut
