"Most of the time, you understand women—often better than they understand themselves. But every now and then, you are very, very wrong."

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Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

 

"For a moment, he dissolves into the song. The turning of the world is of no consequence to him. He doesn't even feel the ground beneath his boots."

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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

 

"I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine"

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Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda

 

"My heart was not trained to love anyone but him. I could only love one person. This was my innate principle. It would disrupt the nervous system to be otherwise. It goes against nature to be otherwise. I cannot just transfer my affections, for they are carved in stone, and were decreed three billion years before this ocean rolled."

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Lives of the Saints by Nancy Lemann

 "'There's no avoiding it. Men are weak, women are strong, Fate is omnipotent.'"

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Smoke by Ivan Turgenev

 

"'Unhappiness is an invention,' I sometimes quote to myself."

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Your Face Tomorrow Volume 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marías

 "'So you're back for more,' he mocks, not standing up to greet me.'"


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Sicily Enough by Claire Rabe

 

"We paid money to go on living in the same way that one once paid health insurance, we bought the commodity called survival, and according to all existing contracts no one has the right to take it from us or make demands upon it."

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Termush by Sven Holm


"How sweet it was when one could undo the lethargy of time by chatting with someone about the little things. You could always find a person to converse with over the larger matters—a government scandal, the delayed monsoon—but it was the tiny concerns, the moment's observations, that you couldn't save up to tell, for you didn't even recognize their full potential to add meaning to life unless you articulated their humour, tragedy, menace or charm." 

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

 

"Remarkable things have a way of happening, and they might as well happen to me as opposed to the next guy."

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The Land and Its People by David Sedaris

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