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I think you might have turned into a novelist, if we’d been allowed to go on.

Americans didn’t invent courage, but we are no strangers to it.

Kids interfere with perfection. Wives interfere. Marriage interferes.

The letter both pleased and disturbed her. Why did he get in touch?

It was up airly and down late with him, and the loom never standin’ still.

He cannot imagine the shape his life would take without her.

I tell her I’m a woman now, that my boobs just popped in.

There in front of the house was his son’s ratty old Thunderbird.

The sense of power that flights of temper evoke will betray you.

A coldness bumped a last kiss upon my cheek, a good-bye kiss sliding across.

Write simple sentences. Report. Don’t moralize. No pretensions.

If, on your deathbed, you want to watch a movie, don’t let me pick.

We want to revisit what life was like before technology infected us.

Merwin discovered and restored eighteen acres of abandoned land.

Jane’s made it clear, this Renuka might not even become a doctor.

He always talked of making money with the air of a connoisseur.

She accused her husband with great drama of having destroyed her life.

To fulminate, to go on a tear, because what’s wanted is forbidden.

A man sits in the Institute of National Memory examining files.

I ask if you are all right until you can be nothing but not all right, not okay.

The stupider the president the more power you arrange for him.

I hadn’t even tried. I was one of the few kids D.A.R.E. had worked on.

Of course he escaped. He would be the one. My legendary brother.

Derek was holding a gun. The barrel was pointed at his own temple.

Sneaking was one thing, entering a bar with a someone else’s ID another.

Kitty reached the age of twenty-five and was still unmarried.

Part of me wished I’d never tried heroin. The rest wanted to be high.