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There in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, they saw Pete.

The King’s affair was supposed to be a secret. But you know how it is.

Our remarks must be tempered by a sense of cooperation.

He was nervous and ill at ease, but my bearing seemed to reassure him.

They danced only with one another and did not speak to white boys.

His mind was a glass vase shat-
tered into pieces across the floor.

He studies their mannerisms, looking for clues to the psycho spirit.

They caught those few of us left unclaimed by the one emotion, or the other.

In exchange for our labor, we would each be given a new set of clothes.

I don’t think I was very frightened. I was simply hungry for home.

It had taken Thursdale seven years to form this fine talent.

“You think you know me,” the girl spat back, locking eyes with Esiha.

More and more whiskey was required to knock out the elephant.

When he got up in the morning the work was done ready to his hand.

How did I ever survive? Maybe I didn’t. Maybe I died back there.

Judging beauty, which is keenest, Eye or heart or mind or penis?

Her lips had the scent of the first kiss, and a thirst for justice.

“Rev. MacLean’s been stabbed in Oban,” his wife said, her voice thin.

Half the women around here have a husband in some kind of fix.

It all started at Phillips Andover Academy when he was fourteen.

There was a dry snap inside the door of the safe. “There it is.”

I have not won yet, but I behave, I feel and think like a rich man.

Why is a duel out of the question? Men are all cocks; they should fight.

I’d chosen three hundred boys out of the best Israel had to offer.

The dean’s voice was stuck in my head. Plagiarism. Expulsion.

He picked up a fairy disguised as a go-go dancer and brought her home.

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.

That autumn, my first in San Francisco, I ran short of money.