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The Law of Averages: New and Selected Stories

by Frederick Barthelme

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Lost Memory of Skin

by Russell Banks

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“He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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“You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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“She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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“All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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“Each of his son's had been his favorite child.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

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