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“Half of what’s wrong with people today is that they ain’t got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don’t reckon you got no place like that.”
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
― The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
“Farrukh, tonight you have won a dishwasher”
― Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
― Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
“Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it. ”
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
― The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories
“The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.”
― Cold Comfort Farm
― Cold Comfort Farm
“I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle.”
― The Beach Trees
― The Beach Trees
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