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“Can’t you see Hemingway’s having breakfast with his grandson?”

We were alone in the world, and we had left dear ties behind us.

Daofu was a cluster of lights bubbling up in the belly of a darkened plain.

A landscape values people at the level that it values other things.

The sounds of Africa exploded around the white men and women.

The neighbors were Ukrainians with bad tempers and owned guns.

she was right—hurricane being the name of the feeling, the twist of it.

The room barely fit a bed, a chest of drawers, and a rocker, all not hers.

They wrapped him in bandages from all three kits. The old man watched them.

We say America you are magnificent and we meant we are heartbroken.

Who cared about a whiff of male exertion and motor oil? Not Lana.

“No one shoots when the army inoculates and hands out money.”

Don’t start conversations or attract attention. Don’t be suspicious.

I’d done what no woman of my race and social station had ever done.

It was as if we were shedding our very selves to become someone else.

A friend said she hated the State of Israel because it killed her cat.

In a few days the troops were to go further on. I left the next day.

One of the most important human capacities is compassion.

Takis brought down the demons that would pursue him the rest of his life.

Charge the ground till it glitters. It was God’s pleading in that rink.

Sometimes these fools shoot themselves, playing with their weapons.

They were such dummkopfs they kicked out the Jews.

No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.

It was a very strange dinner. I didn’t dare ask my parents questions.

No woman he’d ever been with responded so unmistakably.

She has beautiful cheekbones, but her eyes are nearly colorless.

I became a realist the moment they tied a brick to my balls.

In the republic of pain, we bloom ice bags and crutches on limbs.

I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.

I’m told that even during war, she took the time to put on lipstick.