American woman Quote by Myla Goldberg

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing…

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“What struck Celia most about young children was the intensity of their passions, life too new to be modulated, perspective a possession not yet…

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“Creation takes place through words, a series of 'And God Saids' bringing each new stage of life into being. Language is God's divine power…

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She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone…

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I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

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At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this…

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“Rushing toward her are all the letters of the alphabet. Each one moves in its own way, X cartwheeling over and over, C hopping…

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“Having already funneled its students to their respective classrooms, the school's front hall was empty, its glass showcase in the same neglected spot outside…

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“The day's dashed hopes had temporarily reduced her to the childish presumption that someone she loved should, in return for that love, be able…

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“Miriam will never know what kind of dog attacked her, will imagine a Doberman or a German shepherd with snarling, angry teeth despite the…

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As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a…

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“While she eventually adjusts to the faded motivational posters featuring long-dead baby animals and the fifties-era reading books whose soporific effects have intensified with…

— Myla Goldberg