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she who at any time, if she picked up a book, would at once get engrossed in whatever text she happened to slip into “from the book’s brink” with the natural movement of a water creature put back into its brook.
Ada, or Ardor
Vladimir Nabokov
Maybe all American families play the togetherness game—the one where you talk about sports and dine on casseroles (in the Pacific Northwest, it’s gluten-free and organic), fight about politics and act like you have meaningful relationships when you’re actually dying of loneliness.
The sky is deep and distant, laced with sycamore limbs like a hatching of crossed swords.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
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