Eleanor Henderson

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[Wikipedia] Eleanor Henderson is an American author. Her books include the novels Ten Thousand Saints (2011) and The Twelve-Mile Straight (2017), as well as the memoir Everything I Have Is Yours (2021). Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the year's best books by The New York Times Book Review and adapted into

Quotes by Eleanor Henderson

“Elma was filled with a funny combination of relief and regret. It was the feeling she had after getting a crying baby…

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“Girls irritated her, intimidated her, and finally bored her; around girls she became a territorial, sniffing their asses, showing her teeth. It…

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“He, Teddy and Eliza entered the room just as someone was snapping a picture: they would be forever captured in a photo…

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“She cried. Her shoulders shook. It was terrible, the sound she made, the sound of her own strangled voice, and her hate…

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Big House

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“She's too drunk to remember all the words, but it doesn't matter - he already knows them. It's his song, the one…

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“That was how Juke felt on the porch of String Wilson’s new house. He wanted, and he didn’t want to want.”

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“Jude's desire for girls was indiscriminate feverish and complete he wanted them all equally and he wanted them not at all. Blondes…

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