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That circumstances might oblige him to withdraw from her she perfectly understood; that he actually felt himself to be less committed appalled her. It confounded all her assumptions, that something so deeply attested should prove totally unpredictable.
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, • Collected Stories
saying, “The main character is not a real person.” “But in the book, he’s a real person,” Derek had said. “Yes, insofar as he is not presented as a cat or a robot,” Mark said. “So, I am just saying, in the book, I think he has borderline personality disorder.” “This is not an interesting way to read the book.”
Rufi Thorpe • Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel

The preposterousness of the notion that he could at once set up a satisfactory establishment as a married man was a sufficient guarantee against danger. This play at being a little in love was agreeable, and did not interfere with graver pursuits. Flirtation, after all, was not necessarily a singeing process. Rosamond, for her part, had never enjoy
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