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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.

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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.

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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?

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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

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