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The Testaments
Margaret Atwood
If he never grew past the height of four feet nine, observers claimed, it was primarily because he didn’t try. And of course he ate poorly, and slept little, and worked himself to the brink of collapse—and may even, on one or two occasions, have crossed over into that murky indefinable terrain known to the impoverished of imagination as madness. But he soon righted himself, and returned. For there was not his kingdom, there his splendid mind had no dominion.
Bellefleur
Joyce Carol Oates
But there may be a period, while the wings are just beginning to grow, when it cannot do so: and at that stage the lumps on the shoulders—no one could tell by looking at them that they are going to be wings—may even give it an awkward appearance.
A Year With C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
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