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Sally Rooney
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supercilious »
(adjective) coolly and patronizingly haughty
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My son tells me you're ignoring his phone calls, Lorraine a…
[...] Lately Marianne walks around Carricklea and thinks ho…
[...] He only had sex with her twice, neither time enjoyabl…
[...] Marianne [...] asks Joanna if she finds it strange, t…
His eyes were hurting and he closed them. He couldn't under…
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[...] smiling and remembering details about their work. I e…
[...] Whenever I got a "brilliant" I took a little photogra…
Is your dad as handsome as you are? I said
Why, are you …
Bobbi: well you don't really talk about your feelings
me…
I looked down at my own hands. Carefully, like I was daring…
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officious »
(adjective) kind obliging / (adjective) dutiful /…
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peremptory »
(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a rig…
p.421
coterminous »
(adjective) having the same or coincident boundar…
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[...] Minor regrets, like asking that woman Margaret whethe…
[...] Most of the time she can go through life interacting …
Would you like to come inside? he asks.
Doubtingly, he g…
I don’t know, he says. The one thing I said to myself in th…
She looks up at him now, and he’s looking back at her, an i…