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  1. Anne Tyler _ A Spool of Blue Thread

    She said, 'Red, I want to learn every step of you, and dance till the end of the night.
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  2. Anne Tyler _ The Accidental Tourist

    ...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who would make a purchase without consulting _Consumer Reports_.
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  3. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Sugar's cheek was smooth and taut beneath the veil. It felt like one of these netted onions in a grocery store.
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  4. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    They entered Pennsylvania and the road grew smooth for a few hundred yards, like a good intention, before settling back to the old scabby, stippled surface.
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  5. Anne Tyler _ The Clock Winder

    He had begun to have spells lately of worrying that he had died, and that everyone knew it but him.
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  6. Anne Tyler _ Noah's Compass

    those who forget the past tend to regret the future
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  7. Anne Tyler _ The Beginner's Goodbye

    I liked to dwell on these shortcomings now. It wasn't only that I was wondering why they had ever annoyed me. I was hoping they would annoy me still, so that I could stop missing her.
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  8. Anne Tyler _ Breathing Lessons

    Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.
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  9. Anne Tyler _ If Morning Ever Comes

    when I get up in the morning I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again. I
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  10. Anne Tyler _ Dinner at the Homesick

    Always have a purpose,' his father used to tell him. 'Act like you're heading someplace purposeful, and none of the low-life will mess with you.' He had also said, 'Never trust a man who starts his sentences with "Frankly,"' and 'Nine tenths of a good sidearm pitch is in the flick of the wrist,' and 'If you want to sell a person something, look off elsewhere as you're speaking, not straight into his eyes.
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  11. Anne Tyler _ A Spool of Blue Thread

    This was an attractive room, spacious and well designed, but it had the comfortably shabby air of a place whose inhabitants had long ago stopped seeing it."
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  12. Anne Tyler _ A Spool of Blue Thread

    Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you!
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