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““Barbies are warm and tan and always the same, thought Janie, but real people are not always the same.””

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“The letter, crumpled in her purse, felt as large as any Rocky Mountain.”

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“It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions. The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted her clothing like the flaps of a tent, and sounded in her ears like falling snow. It's the wind coming through the double shutters,…

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“I stalked you. Don’t be mad.”

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“He shrugged and sipped his root beer. It came in a bottle. He liked holding a bottle to his lips much more than a…

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I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

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“Reeve loved that Janie would make the plans. She’d make a list, he’d follow it, that would be that.”

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“The Harbor was a plain brick building, undistinguished and solid.”

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“A bag lady of indeterminate race pushed her belongings in a cart, on top of which she had balanced a broken-legged plastic chair and a bag full of returnable bottles she was plucking out of garbage cans. At one garbage can, she reached right between the legs of a black man who had draped himself like a corpse over the…

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“The best thing about college was that you could wear anything anywhere.”

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“But West, like the rest of the Trevors, was endlessly polite. It gave them protection; they could stand neatly behind their courtesy.”

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“I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when…

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“I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire. "Go away!" screamed Devnee. He did not answer. "I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me." He laughed. "No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. "But I don't mind, of course. I have you now. There's no escape, my…

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