Flat Earth
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I told her that in Greek mythology, the only way to preserve a girl’s virtue is to turn her into a tree. In the American South, one has to get married.
“Basically, an eye color that wasn’t supposed to exist in real life: deep turquoise with gold rings around them.”
― The Summer of Broken Rules
― The Summer of Broken Rules
“Look at Thumper’s little face scrimple up when he chews,”
― We All Want Impossible Things
― We All Want Impossible Things
“Though she must have moved, to open the door and so forth, there was again such a quality of stillness that one felt recklessly drawn to her as one who traverses a cliff occasionally feels perilously like throwing oneself over the edge.”
― All He Ever Wanted
― All He Ever Wanted
“A tiny brown spider makes its way across the pew in front of Cora. She watches it tickle its way across the wood,”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
“Possibly I was growing ill. One heard of various hysterias in women, of course, but one did not like to think such a state could infect a man; indeed, by definition, an hysteria could not infect a man, being an entirely female condition.”
― All He Ever Wanted
― All He Ever Wanted
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