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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
Funny how you have to picture losing a thing before you think you might value it after all.
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
The little girls in Room 4 were playing breakup. The ballerina doll was breaking up with the sailor doll. "I'm sorry, John," she said in a brisk, businesslike voice-Jilly's voice, actually-"but I'm in love with somebody else." "Who?" the sailor doll asked. It was Emma G. who was speaking for him, holding him up by the waist of his little blue middy blouse. "I can't tell you who, on account of he's your best friend and so it would hurt your feelings." "Well, that's just stupid," Emma B. pointed out from the sidelines. "Now he knows anyhow, since you said it was his best friend." "He could have a whole bunch of best friends, though." "No, he couldn't. Not if they were 'best.' " "Yes, he could. Me, I have four best friends." "You're a weirdo, then." "Kate! Did you hear what she called me?" "What do you care?" Kate asked. She was helping Jameesha take her painting smock off. "Tell her she's weird herself." "You're weird yourself," Jilly told Emma B. "Am not." "Are so." "Am not." "Kate said you were, so there!" "I didn't say that," Kate said. "Did so." Kate was about to say, "Did not," but she changed it to, "Well, anyhow, I wasn't the one who started it.
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
I too am relieved. I did not know if Kate would like me." "Well, sure she would! You're her own kind, right?" "I am her kind?" Richard suddenly looked less sure of himself, but he said, "I mean you're in that same milieu or whatever. That science milieu she was raised in. Right, Uncle Louis?" he asked. "No normal person could understand you people." "What exactly do you find difficult to understand?" Dr. Battista asked him. "Oh, you know, all that science jargon; I can't offhand-" "I am researching autoimmune disorders," Dr. Battista said. "It's true that 'autoimmune' has four syllables, but perhaps if I broke the word down for you…
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
In my country they have proverb: 'Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.' " This was intriguing. Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
It's hard being a man. Have you ever thought about that? Anything that's bothering them, men think they have to hide it. They think they should seem in charge, in control; they don't dare show their true feelings. No matter if they're hurting or desperate or stricken with grief, if they're heartsick or they're homesick or some huge dark guilt is hanging over them or they're about to fail big-time at something-'Oh, I'm okay,' they say. 'Everything's just fine.' They're a whole lot less free than women are, when you think about it.
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
She walked to work every day feeling starkly, conspicuously alone. It seemed that everyone else on the street had someone to keep them company, someone to laugh with and confide in and nudge in the ribs. All those packs of young girls who'd already figured everything out.
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.""Yes, they would," Pyotr said mysteriously. He had been walking a couple of steps ahead of Kate, but now he dropped back and, without any warning, slung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close to his side. "But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl.
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
You could really feel physically wounded if someone hurt your feelings badly enough.
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
Beware against the sweet person, for sugar has no nutrition.'
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Anne Tyler _ Vinegar Girl
{The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.}
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