Lorrie Moore - Birds of America (1998)

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He was thinking, but she could tell he wasn't good at it.

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This lunge at moral fastidiousness was something she'd noticed a lot in people around here. They were not good people. They were not kind. But they recycled their newspapers!

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She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told, "There you go." — Willing

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She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?'

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She was in bed, a book propped in her lap — a biography of a French feminist, which she was reading for the hairdo information.

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She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

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She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked at the attractive women he would look at...She had become him: she longed for these women. But she was also herself, and so she despised them. She lusted after them, but she also wanted to beat them up. A rapist. She had become a rapist, driving to work in a car.

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