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“There are so many ways to avoid liability that this one doesn’t seem so bad.”
“She, for her part, feels no fear, just a slight flutter.”
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“The boy did not reappear, though she was waiting for him the whole time, the almost three hours she was there.”
“Perhaps that’s why she feels so thrown by her encounter with the boy.”
“Lisa Dillman is a translator from the Spanish whose work has been twice named a finalist for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and received the Best Translated Book Award and Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.”
“She liked his body, and the fact that his heart was exhausted from a previous relationship, and his way of being, both a civil servant in the education sector and a free spirit.”
“Perhaps, she’s come to believe, the houses are just a pretext, a bridge to what she cannot seem to touch in the people themselves.”
“When he climbs into bed, the mattress dips under his weight and he turns out the light.”
“About seven years old, with a dreamy air, in a brown school uniform.”
“He looks like a thief, a small thief whose secret goal is to be accepted, though he makes no attempt to be friendly or to explain himself.”
“A boy, she now realizes, who has not blinked, not once.”
“His very presence, despite being solid, has an instability about it.”
““What do you want?” she asks.”
“He doesn’t seem at all shy, more curious.”
“She’s never been one to probe, stir things up, demand explanations.”
“Tells him that these days nobody would be willing to pay so much money for a house that is neither comfortable nor openly flaunts what it cost.”
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“Barba is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Such Small Hands and The Right Intention .”