I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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