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Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about young African-American and mixed-race teens, women and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. When Danielle Evans's short story "Virgins" was published in The Paris Review in late... read more
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- Geena: Add a description of this character.
- Chrissie
- Allison
- Liddie
- Michael
- Jasmine
- Esther
- Brian
- Georgie
- Kenny
- Lanae
- Phil
- Mr. Thompson
- Debra
- Maya
- William
- Mrs. Peterson
- Laura
- Eva
- Edie
- Mindy
- Alan
- Rafael
- Jason
- Ron
- Gabi
- Claire
- Carlos
- Miranda
- Amanda
- Eddie
- Robert E. Lee
- Ramirez
- Annie
- Tara
- Kate
- Cindy
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“Trust me on this, he'd said. Appreciate the liars. When people don't hide things, it means they don't care enough to be afraid of losing you.”
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“Appreciate the liars. When people don’t hide things, it means they don’t care enough to be afraid of losing you.”
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It was easy to be somebody else when no one cared who you were in the first place.
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There were moments when you knew things about what was inside of people you didn’t want to, knew how deeply they could disappoint you.
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She’s the wrong kind of pretty, the kind that’s soft but not fragile, the kind that inspires the impulse to touch.
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“It’s called love, shithead. You hurt people, and then you make it better.”
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Don’t push too hard; your last chance to see a person the way you wanted them to be may come at any moment.
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she doesn’t need me to tell her what it is to watch somebody let you down by being human in the saddest and neediest ways, what it is to push at something that has long since given way.
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Interrupting people was the only way I could be sure of my presence in their lives.
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I didn’t know that, but I did understand then that there was no such thing as safe, only safer; that this, if it didn’t happen now, would happen later but not better.
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It seemed wrong to me, that money should be the difference between a baby and not-a-baby. I had a thing inside of me that I could not afford, and Laura had things inside of her that she couldn’t afford not to sell, and on the other end of it there were women spending tens of thousands of dollars to buy them because they felt their own bodies had betrayed them. Any way you looked at it, where there should have been a child, there was a math problem.
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First Sentence edit
Me and Jasmine and Michael were hanging out at Mr. Thompson's pool.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Danielle Evans (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.6
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