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“She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.” quote by Elizabeth Strout — Download Open image

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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge…

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“what young people did not know. They did not know that lumpy, aged, and wrinkled bodies were as needy as their own young, firm…

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“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a good one,”…

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“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into some large and private club that she had not even known existed. Women who miscarried. Society did not care much for them. It really didn't. And the women in the club mostly passed each other silently.…

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“He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.”

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“The year that followed - was it the happiest year of his own life? He often thought so, even knowing that such a thing…

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I have to pay attention to what I have felt and observed, then push these responses to an extreme while keeping the story within…

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“She could hear in the darkness of her car how his breathing was quicker now; and her own was, too. She wanted to say…

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“Abdikarim shook his head in his darkened room, sweat coming from his face down onto his neck. “No, he cuts my heart. You didn’t see him. He’s not what we saw in the newspaper. He’s a frightened …” finishing softly: “child.” “We live now where there are laws,” Haweeya said soothingly. “He’s frightened because he broke the law.” Abdikarim continued to…

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“she’d have been throwing out clamshells, most likely.”

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Each time, I hear your lovely song, It makes me smile. Every time, I hear you scream, It breaks my heart. Any time, I hear you crying, My Soul, Weeps. When you smile, I soar. When you laugh, I fly. When you giggle, I whimper. When I see your face, I mistakenly, Think I am witness, To the most beautiful,…

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