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  1. Sheri Holman _ Witches on the Road Tonight

    This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with loss - the loss of virginity, the loss of innocence - but that at some point there stands to be a gain.
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  2. Sheri Holman _ Witches on the Road Tonight

    Secrets are always hardest at the beginning. After a while they settle in like the cavities in your teeth, and you only think about them when they hurt.
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  3. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    Polly had always marveled . . . that her country would name such a processed and unnatural product {American cheese} after itself, yet hungry Rose . . . gleefully ate every individually wrapped, plastic little one of them.
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  4. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    He loved that she eschewed cursive for print, as he did. Cursive, more than anything, betrayed a person's age.
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  5. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    {H}e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names with no rhyme or reason . . . names that obviously didn't flow.
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  6. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    {N}ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.
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  7. Sheri Holman _ The Mammoth Cheese

    If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.
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  8. Sheri Holman _ Witches on the Road Tonight

    You don't want to be comforted, do you?" he asks, sadly. "You'd rather be guilty. You know they made up the idea of original sin not to punish but to console us. When all the incomprehensible shit goes down, we can blame ourselves, it was something we did or didn't do. Without guilt, we are irrelevant. And that is so much worse.
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  9. Sheri Holman _ Witches on the Road Tonight

    God must feel the same at the end of a long day. Stop trying to make Me happy with all that ritual up and down, all the good works and psychic genuflecting. All the good works in the world will not bring you and closer to Me. Stand still. Let Me look at you and find Myself reflected. Maybe for a brief moment, you thought it was all about you, but surprise, Creation. It is all about Me.
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  10. Sheri Holman _ Witches on the Road Tonight

    I learned something in the years I spent among suicide bombers. . . The boys and girls who are willing to blow up their lives are not the true believers. They are the ones in agonies of doubt. There is always someone with nothing to prove who buckles the belt around them.
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  11. Sheri Holman _ Witches on the Road Tonight

    He makes her feel halfway normal by being so much further beyond her.
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  12. Sheri Holman _ Witches on the Road Tonight

    ...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.
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