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whether or not he forgave himself for it

He didn’t ask her many questions, but he didn’t talk about himself much either, which made Lena feel at ease, like he was neither consumed with trying to figure her out nor trying to make her understand him. He talked about the ever-widening class gap that had progressively managed to ruin a city t…

—p.36 Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood
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she often confused her decades

The tech takeover had begun before Mitty moved in. She was used to the reality of surf spots teeming with millionaire tenderfoots, their ordinary brown hair eagerly doused with lemon juice. The way they paddled toward barreling waves in the middle of a thunderstorm, then retreated to their freshly …

—p.14 by Olivia Gatwood
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I’m thinking of calling it Sister Outsider

In the taxi home, we make out furiously and then I tell Cyrus I’ve been thinking more about the mentorship program. We’ll launch it at WAI and then get other companies to sign up. When women are hired, they will be paired with someone senior, someone whose job it is to help them cut through all the…

—p.256 The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam
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a dead person has sent a text message

Crazy Craig is jubilant. “THIS IS GOING TO KILL EVERYONE,” he says when he shows up at Utopia. “I knew it, I knew you two were a force, a super-fucking-natural force.” He waltzes around the office hugging people and passing out cannabis-laced lollipops. All this because, to everyone’s horror and Cr…

—p.242 by Tahmima Anam
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bidding farewell to millennia of organized religion meh/style

Cyrus is prepared for this request, and he knows how to play to his audience. “Well, we created rituals for seven hundred funerals yesterday,” he says. “Thousands of weddings, birthdays, initiations, baptisms, commitment ceremonies, graduations. Every part of the human life cycle is touched by WAI.…

—p.211 by Tahmima Anam