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American writer
“Even fifteen hundred miles away, even on the phone, Georgie was more alive than anything else in his life. He felt his cheeks warm just thinking about seeing her again. That's what Georgie did to h...”
“At the end of the day -- after work, after trying to spend some sort of meaningful time with Alice and Noomi --Georgie was usually too tired to make things right with Neal before they fell asleep. ...”
“Things didn't go bad between Georgie and Neal. Things were always bad -- and always good. Their marriage was like a set of scales constantly balancing itself. And then, at some point, when neither ...”
“There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor fe...”
“She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school. "My mum said that nobody really knew where you came from. And that you might be dangerous." "Why didn't you listen to...”
“I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.”
“Everytime, he breaks your heart. And everytime, he expects me to pick up the pieces.”
“She's all brute force and '90s clichs.”
“Parfois, crire se rapproche de la chute libre : vos doigts s'agitent sur le clavier comme vos jambes dans le vide.”
“He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down dj vu.”
“Your mother was a hero. She developed a spell for gnomeatic fever. And she was the youngest headmaster in Watford history.Baz is looking at Penny like theyve never met.And, Penny goes on, she defen...”
“If it tries to take you," Wren said, "I wont' let go.”
“Eleanor hated it when her mom acted like that. Relentlessly submissive. It was humiliatng to be in the same room.”
“I can't believe there's a part of you that grows when you need it. You're like a mutant.""I'm a vampire," Baz says, "and can you hear yourself?”
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they cant quite keep up with gravity.”
“The professor leaned forward. But theres nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing. Her lovely face turned fierce. Think about it Cath. Thats what makes a godor a mother. Theres ...”
“And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?”
“When Im writing my own stuff, its like swimming upstream. Or falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.”
“The world turned itself into a better place around him.”
“Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it. It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.”
