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4395d5f "...but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed, in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion... ("Afterward")" rural-life rural countryside Edith Wharton
3a5e835 I keep forgetting that if you live in a big city only mad people talk to themselves. rural urban Jeanette Winterson
4777132 "I wish I could run away," Rudger told Jersey as they both rushed in and out of various patients' rooms, darting around like little ants. "I can't leave and be on my own though, not right now, anyway." "Why?" asked Jersey, waving her flashlight in mid-air. Rudger froze for a second, a regretful haze emanating from his eyes. "It'd break her heart if I left." "Ain't that normal? For parents to have mixed feelings about their kids growin' up?" "Not for me, it isn't." Jersey made a pitying face in his direction. "So, you wanna keep bein' towed around with your mom, livin' in a gross town like Danvers?" "Is there a choice?" "Yeah, there sure is. You can run away and try to be a whole person before it's too late, or you can live with mommy dearest forever and turn into Norman Bates." rebellion friendship backwater danvers-state heaert-heartbreak mommy norman-bates runaway rural teen-roance mental-hospital emotional small-town parent normal gross drama Rebecca McNutt