#The Vegetarian

The more she laughs, the more he ups the ante with his clowning. By the time he finishes he will have run through all the

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I want to swallow you, have you melt into me and flow through my veins.

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This was the body of a beautiful young woman, conventionally an object of desire, and yet it was a body from which all

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She laughed. Faintly, as if there were nothing she wouldn’t do, as if limits and boundaries no longer held any meaning

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Her voice had no weight to it, like feathers. It was neither gloomy nor absentminded, as might be expected of someone who

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Her calm acceptance of all these things made her seem to him something sacred. Whether human, animal or plant, she could not

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