2 Quotes by Amy Mason Doan

  • Author Amy Mason Doan
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    I checked the big silver-and-white wall clock. It was the centerpiece in a construction-paper design that said:TIME IS PASSING. WILL YOU?FOCUS!The O in focus was the clock.

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  • Author Amy Mason Doan
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    I'd had kisses. Rushed, wet, tasting of beer, right out in the open. I'd messed around with a funny sophomore in my anthropology seminar and a shy journalism grad student, and while these nights were satisfying in their way, the pleasure didn't last past 2:00 am.I missed patience, the sweet, smoky taste of scotch. And the gut thrum of the forbidden.Instead of obscuring my memory of him, the hours I spent with boys at school slid to the edges and collected around it, like a frame.

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