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thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee.
Celeste Ng • Everything I Never Told You
every adult – who’d ever cudgeled a student with arbitrary, unearned power.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.
John McGahern • Stoner
eventually in my best Arabic with a dash of Gaelic I told her, “Salam, le do thoill, dhun dha ghob.” The silence became deafening.
Sean Breen • 1-Way Ticket
It hasn’t always been this way, though. Patrick Kavanagh (1904–67), the great poet of the Irish mundane,
Nan Shepherd • The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
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