Showing posts with label HarperCollins Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HarperCollins Canada. Show all posts

"Andrée shrugged. 'People say you have to have faith because believing is irrational. So I end up thinking that the more irrational things seem, the more likely they are to be true.'"
 

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Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir

"Foam earplugs are the gummy vitamins of soundproofing -- you'd have to pour cement in your ears not to hear an MRI. I pretended I was at some kind of art installation at the Guggenheim, where one floors melds into the next. The first floor sounded like a game-show buzzer. The second, like ducks quacking while someone scrubbed tiles with steel wool. The top floor was a tiny train barreling over the tracks of a small town. Then, suddenly, the noises stopped and the technician's voice came through a speaker: 'We happy in there?' 'Yes?' I guessed."
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Look Alive Out There: Essays by Sloane Crosley

"I grinned at her as I slipped the knife into my boot."

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The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey

"Here is the real message... : I am Donald Trump; nobody owns me. I don't pander to you; I don't pretend to be nice and polite; I am rich and that's what you would like to be; I'm a winner; I beat people at their own game, and if you vote for me, I will beat our adversaries; if you want wonky policy details, go with those losers who offer 10-point plans; if you want to feel good about yourselves and your country, stick with me."
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Winning Arguments by Stanley Fish

(quoting de Beauvoir) "'Marriage is the destiny traditionally offered to women by society,' she writes. 'Far from freeing the matron, the occupation makes her dependent on her husband and children; she is justified through them; but in their lives she is only an inessential intermediary.'"
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The Meaning of Wife by Anne Kingston

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