Nella Larsen - Quicksand (1928)

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Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade from her conception of it. As the days multiplied, her need of something, something vaguely familiar, but which she could not put a name to and hold for definite examination, became almost intolerable. She went through moments of overwhelming anguish. She felt shut in, trapped.

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New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.

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I'm homesick, not for America, but for Negroes.

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Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

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That's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it.

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Faith was really quite easy. One had only to yield. To ask no questions. The more weary, the more weak she became, the easier it was.

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And suddenly she was oddly cold. An intimation of things distant, but nonetheless disturbing, oppressed her with a faintly sick feeling. Like a heavy weight, a stone weight, just where she knew, was her stomach.

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