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Foodexpand_moreI ask that now I be allowed to see the one my vision has been denied.
From the roof, my husband observed daily a man and a woman having sex.
Afterward, it was nature that was blind, and she who was wild.
It was good they were Africans, she thought. It meant less danger.
“Ki-Tae the famous pastor,” Jae says to her. “Can you believe life.”
Don’t tell him you’re a virgin, says Peggy. You’ll freak him out.
We buy a bag of cockles and three crabs, all female, sweet with egg.
He’s got a nice, deep kind of voice. He doesn’t sound redneck at all.
We shall still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead.
The goose cannot see the North but knows exactly where it lies.
When I cried the tears felt so ineffective next to the ocean.
In search of the life we all agree is so desirable—art, romance, freedom!
Lust was just a frenzy of activity that had mostly led Benny in circles.
Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad wins Pulitzer Prize.
I wanted to ask what her secret was but I was too busy knitting socks.
He probably should have arrested or at least reported me to someone.
His hands stiffened so that the fingers curled inward like gray claws.
The blood had been soaked up in sawdust—“this is hell.”
It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.
It was on a mid-June morning that the stranger first called.
Chocolate promises a happy ending. I believed in that promise.
Miss Moses smiled, I could take you, buster. Don’t try anything with me.
The child is too perfect to be human; too perfect, truthfully, to exist.
“Nothing does you so much harm as being in disgrace for lying.”
He’ll probably try to get her in the sack, just to stay in practice.
Sometimes a story is like a beehive. Sometimes an idea is like a poem.
It takes a strong woman to make any sort of success in the West.
