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Persist
Zaina Arafat
‘I grew obsessed with the place, thinking that getting to see it, to experience it, would make the pain of that fall go away.’
The Ivory Acrobat
Don DeLillo
‘She lay in a kind of timeless drift, a mindwork spiral, carried on half-formed thoughts. She passed into a false sleep and then was listening again. She opened her eyes.’
The Grief of Strangers
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
‘Chinechelum said little as her mother drove her to the airport.’
Gifted
Segun Afolabi
‘The boys' eyes grazed the carpet and then each other guiltily. The youngest tried not to smile with shame.’
Trident
James Buchan
‘As many as thirty-five states in the world are thought to have the capacity (if not the wish) to build a nuclear weapon.’
Fit Mother
Peter Ho Davies
‘The court had given me six months to prove I was a responsible adult and a fit mother’.
Democracy
Joseph Brodsky
‘Nothing, really, Petrovich. That Georgian, you know, that foreign minister of theirs, says that half an hour ago, Himself announced at a press conference that democracy is being introduced here.’
Abingdon Square
André Aciman
‘Your problem is not that you misread signs; it’s that you see them everywhere.’
Hush . . . Hush Sweet Charlotte
Kazushige Abe
‘The crucial thing was to cool the baby off, bring the fever down.’
