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Rumaan Alam

Leave the World Behind

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  • ninahas quotedlast year
    Life was like that; life was about change.
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    Rose sang to herself, in her head first, and then she felt bold, or different, or fine, or happy, and sang out loud, a One Direction song, the kind of thing Archie would have mocked her for liking
    but secretly enjoyed.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    leader of the free world was sequestered beneath the White House, but no one cared about him, certainly not a little girl tripping through the woods and thinking about Harry Styles.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    . Less than an hour, and everything was changed.
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    “His teeth.” Danny was quiet for a while. “You think it had something to do with that noise?” Danny didn’t know that the teeth in Karen’s mouth were themselves loose, would soon fall out.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    Guess what? It was pink like—
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    She didn’t know that it was worse, that war could not describe it.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    Trees marked their lives in rings that can’t be seen; people, in the garbage they left everywhere, a way of insisting on their own importance.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    The trees knew what was up. The trees talked amongst themselves. They were sensitive to the seismic reverberations of bombs far distant. Trees miles
    away—where the ocean had begun to breach the land—were dying, though it would take years for them to be reduced to albino logs.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    can’t get through life dismissing the incomprehensible as divine
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