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“She can’t go in there,” he says firmly. “It isn’t appropriate.” “See this, sweetness?” Bina has fished out her badge. “I’m like a cash gift. I’m always appropriate.”
Michael Chabon • The Yiddish Policemen's Union

It’s always startling to come across Cha’s videos in the company of other artists, as if I’m seeing a relative whom I haven’t seen for years in a bright public space. But what are you doing here, I want to ask, where have you been?
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
‘You’ve heard something?’ asked Paul Ziller, the leader of the Ziller Quartet. He had no work permit, his quartet was disbanded, but each day he went to the Jewish Day Centre to practise in an unused cloakroom, and each night he dressed up in a cummerbund to play bogus gypsy music in a Hungarian restaurant in exchange for his food.
Eva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
Then she put on a big Charity Harris smile, opening the door. She would disappear inside herself, inside these empty homes where nobody actually lived.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
in March of 2018 she moved to the Bay Area and took some time for herself before reporting to her new job. On her blog she described her feelings of liberation. me after living in the Bay Area for a week: monogamy is hopeless and dying. might as well be a plate for alpha guys while I’m still young/hot enough and freeze my eggs for later