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Family & Ancestorsexpand_more“I have always had a gift of feeling what is in other people’s hearts.”
What my father and I destroyed, I take back—kneeling, among the shells.
I’m still in love with this filthy city, but now I know Berlin's love isn’t free.
No one answered. I turned to his parents. My stomach felt on fire.
We didn’t give the order to drop the bomb. But thank God somebody did.
For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air.
It was good they were Africans, she thought. It meant less danger.
Sue Williams tells a pitch-perfect story outloud, about devotion.
Gramps’ will was a fifty-year diary, all jammed onto two sheets.
I was getting a little fogged, but I recognized irony when I heard it.
He held a screwdriver to the fleshy underside of Peggy’s neck.
All we knew from my father was that my sister had to be cut from her car.
This is not America! It is not the America I grew up in, it’s
a joke.
“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”
A gift tells you who you are and what you’re not in the eyes of others.
If there was any magic in his sad life, it happened on that day.
They danced only with one another and did not speak to white boys.
When the coach called again, Wayne felt his temper slipping.
We shall still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead.
“I can’t hold it any longer. I have to pee,” I finally confessed to Viola.
However hard I trudge and search I cannot find the hills I have climbed.
“You think you know me,” the girl spat back, locking eyes with Esiha.
Each harbored a sense that a family of three was not a real family.
He thinks with joy and conviction that the Japanese are his enemy.
“Go watch the showgirls, Roy,” said Chino. “It’s educational.”
He tossed her over his head like a ballerina, one rough hand on each hip.
“She was breakable, and I probably knew it from the start.”
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.
Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.
He could not help but take her as his wife. She was a scandal.
