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Quotes from The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel — Amy Hempel

born 1951 United States

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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006)

Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amy Hempel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.