December 2010
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“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way...”
– Atmospheric Disturbances, Rivka Galchen (p. 56)
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The 20 Under 40 Challenge: Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
“I’d thought you didn’t even love her that much anymore, some part of me taunted. Some parts of me are so mean.” (p. 57)
This probably wasn’t the best choice of novel for the week immediately preceding Christmas, because it made me really sad. One night, Dr. Leo Liebenstein is met at home by a...
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“Big Red felt a dull, cuckolded rage, but she wasn’t surprised. For her...”
– St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell, p. 160
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The 20 Under 40 Challenge: St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
“I gaped up at my mother, and let her words sink in. I’d known for some time that a change was coming; I welcomed the idea of it, I wanted it, almost, or tried to want it, like my ambivalent prayers for rain in open country. But parting ways! This was a lunatic move, ghastly and extreme,...
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The 20 Under 40 Challenge: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“She said ‘teenagers’ as if she were not one, as if teenagers were a brand of people who, by not listening to culturally conscious music, were a step beneath her. And she said ‘culturally conscious’ in the proud way that people say a word they never knew they would learn until they do.” ...