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"The temperature outside was the same as it had been inside. The air felt recycled, as if she were stepping out of a store and into a mall, from one contained space to a larger contained space. Inside this outside, the sun had come down."

"He watched Marcy watch him. There was no way to get out of Marcy‘s crosshairs. She seemed to have the power to look at his big toe and make it wiggle."

"Were they saving the clothes for another baby? No, no. They were keeping them, like how Lǎolao and Lǎoye kept his mother‘s school acceptances, or that letter from Nankai University‘s president congratulating her for placing at the top of her class. In America everything was an accomplishment, even growing out of baby clothes."

"Annabel thrust a finger at Jack, with an intensity that dented the air."

"It had been a long fall, made worse by the general feeling that fall had not ended, and the holidays were an illusion."

"He opened up and gathered Liang in his arms, cradling him as if a head or leg might topple to the ground."

"His mother had a hand draped over his father‘s chest, and her face pressed against his. She looked as if she were sniffing up the loose wax from his ear." ?