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When you’re in love, you want to live forever. You want the emotion, the excitement you feel to last. Reading in Italian arouses a similar longing in ...more

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I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

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Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging through her like some helplessly mating pair of insects...more

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But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was...more

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But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full...more