"In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these pages is like living them. Only as I closed the book did I sadly realize that Georgette and Ann weren't my neighbors. But happily I can revisit them again, and again, in this beautiful and absorbing novel."

-- Margot Livesey

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“When looking at female body builders and reading about the industry and the culture, their bodies just break down. They end up having to get breast implants and not having menstrual cycles. The obsession of pushing your physical self way beyond what nature is expecting is really interesting. I liked the idea of these women; it's their career, but it's also their obsession.”
“An isolated pawn spreads gloom all over the chessboard.”
“I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit.”
“Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place”

Source : Sara Ahmed (2014). “Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.35, Edinburgh University Press
“Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about the violence in this great country of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not concerned with the millions being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is the greatest destroyer of peace today- abortion which brings people to such blindness.”
“I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get.”
“Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.”
“Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?”

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