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"You can waste your whole life half-expecting the impossible. " Diana Spechler/Who by Fire

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"The ancient cave, of course, had produced a mystic; my childhood had produced only me." Lorrie Moore/A Gate at the Stairs

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"At the age of twenty-one, Megha Ramnath was not only married for a year but was about to be executed." Shobhan Bantwal/The Dowry Bride

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"I got suspended from school 'cause I'm pregnant which I don't think is fair. I ain' did nothin'!" Sapphire/Push

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"I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps." Lorrie Moore/A Gate at the Stairs

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"He should have swallowed his petulance and waited the extra day for Joy." Richard Russo/That Old Cape Magic

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"I carry the delicate porcelain beauty of Charleston like the hinged shell of some soft-tissued mollusk." Pat Conroy/South of Broad

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"I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ." Gillian Flynn/Dark Places

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"The last thing I remember clearly is a question I asked of a young girl with tattoos on her face." Lisa Unger/Die for You

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"I understand monks and hermits, anyone who takes a vow of silence or lives in a far-flung cave." Kate Christensen/The Epicure's Lament

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"I haven't read many books, but I've read all the ones that count." Aravind Adiga/The White Tiger

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"But as smart as I am, I don't know how to protect myself from my father's words." Lisa See/Shanghai Girls

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"I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." Sara Gruen/Water for Elephants

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"Even in her dreams my mother denied herself the impossible." Kaye Gibbons/A Cure For Dreams

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"When I cried in those days it was always for his pain, not for mine." Anna Quindlen/Black and Blue

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"I'd rather be a lone lioness, roaring and free, than a caged bird without even a name to call my own." Sherry Jones/The Jewel of Medina

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"And I had believed in that early cheap music, knowing nothing else about life." Sue Miller/The Good Mother

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"There's not a whole lot a woman can do from the grave." Kaye Gibbons/A Virtuous Woman

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"Who was it who had had his mind's eye on me while I hadn't suspected a thing?" Diane Setterfield/The Thirteenth Tale

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"I also committed my first act of rebellion: I joined a church." Lisa Gardner/Hide