“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
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Stewart O’Nan’s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, and Emily, Alone. Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists. He lives in Pittsburgh. ([source][1]) [1]: https://stewart-onan.com/bio/
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“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
“There was a lot about Kim and J.P. he didn't get.... he was confused by their lack of romance. As a father, he was at times grateful for that missing intensity, but as a man who liked to sur...”
“Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.”
“While she was away, he'd forgotten how powerfully she broadcast her feelings, filling the house like a kind of nerve gas.”
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“Theirs was a private language, not shared with the rest of the world, and so exempt from censure, sheer burlesque.”
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“There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.”
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