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“Miranda waited, then said, 'But what will I do for a whole year?' Neither of them answered her. She supposed the answer was, Get better. The thought of a slow and measured crawl back to health filled her with black sand.”

Time Waiting Health Mental Illness Recovery Slow Helen Oyeyemi Figurative Language White Is For Witching Unwell

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“It was like dancing with a mask that was attached to a stick—she dared not lower it, no matter how tiring it was to hold the mask up. She was the ugly girl at the ball.”

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“She smiled with a scary energy, as if she had been told to at gunpoint.”

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“There was . . . a mirror that crawled across the wall in a wooden frame. When I go into Miri's room all I can see, all I can think of is that enormous mirror, like a lake on the wall.”

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