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9 months, 2 weeks ago

the dim, rude little melody it made

One of the presents given to Cathy at the party was a cardboard music box with a jolly yellow duck and a birthday-card message on the front, and with a little crank on one side: when you turned the crank it played a tinny rendition of “Happy Birthday to You.” And when Warren came back to the flat t…

—p.243 The Collected Stories of Richard Yates Liars in Love (240) by Richard Yates
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it didn’t take her long to discover that she hated London

She was a sharp-featured, pretty girl named Carol, married at an age she often said had been much too young, and it didn’t take her long to discover that she hated London. It was big and drab and unwelcoming; you could walk or ride a bus for miles without seeing anything nice, and the coming of win…

—p.240 Liars in Love (240) by Richard Yates
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the rest of her was rapidly aging too topic/growing-older

Agnes Andrews would be sixty before very long, and for many years she had been obliged to wear spectacles with lenses so thick that it wasn’t easy to see the expression in her eyes: you had to rely on the smile or the frown or the patient, neutral look of her mouth. And her husband had to acknowled…

—p.216 A Natural Girl (200) by Richard Yates
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living with a man she no longer loved

Alone in the kitchen, preparing drinks and coming to an abrupt, nervous decision that he’d better have a quick one now, here, before taking the tray into the living room, Dr. Andrews wondered once again what it was that could make him tremble in the presence of this dearest child, this particular g…

—p.214 A Natural Girl (200) by Richard Yates
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there is no why

He set his empty glass on the floor and got quickly to his feet, as he always did for shouting, but he didn’t shout. Instead he peered very closely at her face, as if trying to penetrate the surface of it, and said, “My God, you really mean this, don’t you. I’ve really lost you, haven’t I. You don’…

—p.213 A Natural Girl (200) by Richard Yates