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At every turn, Molly Antopol's gorgeous debut story collection, 'The UnAmericans,' is fi...
JESMYN WARD I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And ...
CYBILL SHEPERD The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he...
PHILLIP NOYCE It was a race to see who was going to get that first championship. It was a relief to get the first ...
GRAHAM WHITEHOUSE And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about...
DAVID WONG We have more acceptance and credibility from being away for so long. Our songs have a life of their ...
CLEM BURKE She’d been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But...
EMILY ARDEN![]()
Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it goi...
ALEX GUARNASCHELLI![]()
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception,...
BIBLE Queen Elizabeth liked Falstaff's character so much that she sent word that she'd like to see more of...
LYNNE BURROUGHS And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a pa...
BIBLE She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut ...
MEREDITH DURAN It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR![]()
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA It's definitely special to win this race, especially for a lot of guys like me who knew Henry for so...
BYRON HO [For all that, their work with Bittová has been one of their more adventurous outings. She describe...
CARNEGIE HALL [For all that, their work with Bittová has been one of their more adventurous outings. She describe...
CARNEGIE HALL![]()
Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She...
LATIKA TEOTIA![]()
. . . but it was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF But it wasn’t mine anymore. It was his. I was his. Something in that flirted with the submissive I...
ALASKA ANGELINI [For all that, their work with Bittová has been one of their more adventurous outing...
CARNEGIE HALL It's been so long, just having her around, she brings so much. She was able to take a group of young...
DEBBIE STROMAN![]()
When I was in junior high school, I used to think that Disney's 1990's paranormal television program...
REBECCA MCNUTT Xavier has been running the 400 meters so he has a little more strength at the end of his race. He r...
DENNIS SHAVER I came up here for my first Formula Atlantic race in October of 1974 and watched that car win the ra...
BOBBY RAHAL![]()
I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own...
PETER S. BEAGLE He started talking about his wife and how she was taking advantage of him, spending his money, ... H...
GARY MCLARTY![]()
Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such storie...
MEAGAN SPOONER![]()
It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver...
JIM BUTCHER People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped i...
DIANA GABALDON![]()
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his...
URSULA K. LE GUIN![]()
Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made th...
C.S. LEWIS My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whethe...
NATE PARKER She was the first face that students would see when they came into the student union. She had a very...
COLENE LIND She was really excited to see Caroline. Jimmy told Lovett that Caroline was the reason that he came ...
CAROLINE LELAND![]()
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'...
PHILIP PULLMAN She comes every day to practice and works real hard. She's a great kid. She gets a lot of offensive ...
JOE RUSSO [For all that, their work with Bittov‡ has been one of their more adven...
CARNEGIE HALL![]()
Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d...
LAUREN GROFF![]()
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.![]()
I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first clas...
LUPE FIASCO Lauren had her best race. She has improved every race this year. She is becoming so comfortable with...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY After we'd been here for a while they told us that there was another woman in labor. It was kind of ...
HEATHER LARDIE She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more t...
CARLOS SALINAS![]()
It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intima...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM![]()
She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they h...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN You knew she was ill. But even through last week, she was upbeat. She was a great coach, but more im...
SKIP BERTMAN![]()
Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write...
AMOR TOWLES![]()
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life tha...
SAM SHEPARD It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f...
ELIZABETH HOYT![]()
At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a pa...
DEAN KOONTZ Now kids, if we all could have sex without condoms and getting pregnant. It would halt the progress ...
J C A ROWE It was the first time she's ever done it. She hadn't even practiced it in practice. We just signed h...
TERESA ADAMS My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's na...
AMIRI BARAKA Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w...
COURTNEY CAROLA![]()
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort...
ORHAN PAMUK Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...
LYNNE AMBROSINI To us she was bigger than life. It didn't seem like cancer could beat her. I still come in every day...
MARSHA QUINN It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a f...
ROBERT NEWTON PECK![]()
No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ...
J.D. ROBB With an expression that could be mistaken for fear, Detective Duke shivered, but not of terror, more...
T.K. WARE![]()
She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the...
THOMAS HARDY![]()
It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
JACK PAAR Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…
ROWENA CHERRY![]()
Tess's feminine hope - shall we confess it - had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in he...
THOMAS HARDY He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How cou...
ANNETTE CURTIS KLAUSE![]()
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did...
LEO TOLSTOY She is one of the strongest girls I've ever met and when she connects on a ball, it has a tendency t...
DARCY RIGSBY![]()
Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the ...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO![]()
I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's ...
ANNA DEAVERE SMITH![]()
He's been around racing for so long, he has such an adept knowledge of racing, and a lot of people d...
ROBBY GORDON I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of t...
MEL TORME![]()
It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes w...
STEPHENIE MEYER It seems like every time she swims that race she sets a record.
ELYCE KASTIGAR From the first time she entered his life, she stressed him out. He was having chest pains, lying dow...
LAURA MELISI![]()
But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun-
carpeted stairs that Se...
L.M. MONTGOMERY![]()
She could refuse to have sex with me every day for the rest of our lives and I still would choose he...
TARRYN FISHER![]()
Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl.
HARRY DEAN STANTON![]()
If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might have
thought this constant bri...
ELIZABETH GASKELL![]()
Those who are purporting this one-world government ideology seek to achieve the pinnacle of power li...
JAMES DYE I knew she came out with 31 points last night and I had to 'D' it up on her tonight. I was working a...
BECCA MCARDLE The first three weeks were horrible -- making decisions about having to destroy 25 years of our life...
BETTY RHOADS![]()
I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how h...
STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL![]()
Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my ent...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI![]()
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one co...
DANIELLE STEEL was not so filled with rancor that I have to see him behind bars for the rest of his life.
PIM FORTUYN She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had t...
BEVERLY CLEARY ...she knew right away she was entering a new world. One she had never witnessed or played a part in...
TALON P.S.![]()
She stayed with Bill until the paramedics came and kept him talking, so Bill wasn't alone. That gift...
MICHAEL DAVIS![]()
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic...
CARRIE FISHER She was a young thing, a child really, full of hope and light, who’s only friends were the shadows...
LEXIE SYRAH![]()
People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex wi...
ARIEL LEVY I had a seventh-grader playing her first singles match today at No. 5, so that was good to see her a...
NANCY CLOUSE There was only one hope she didn't and wouldn't allow herself to hold on to: that if, in almost thir...
INGEBORG BACHMANN I've been here 16 years so I've known him most of his life. Every year I see him in the gym and the ...
JAY MELTON He gave so much of his life to public service, but his family always came first. I'm very proud he w...
BILL STANLEY
JESMYN WARD I had to lie so much about sex, first when I was 15, because I wasn't supposed to be having it. And ...
CYBILL SHEPERD The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, he...
PHILLIP NOYCE It was a race to see who was going to get that first championship. It was a relief to get the first ...
GRAHAM WHITEHOUSE And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about...
DAVID WONG We have more acceptance and credibility from being away for so long. Our songs have a life of their ...
CLEM BURKE She’d been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But...
EMILY ARDEN
Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it goi... ALEX GUARNASCHELLI
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception,...
BIBLE Queen Elizabeth liked Falstaff's character so much that she sent word that she'd like to see more of...
LYNNE BURROUGHS And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a pa...
BIBLE She wished he could make her somehow indelibly his; that they were still children so they could cut ...
MEREDITH DURAN It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. H... CHRISTINA AGUILERA It's definitely special to win this race, especially for a lot of guys like me who knew Henry for so...
BYRON HO [For all that, their work with Bittová has been one of their more adventurous outings. She describe...
CARNEGIE HALL [For all that, their work with Bittová has been one of their more adventurous outings. She describe...
CARNEGIE HALL
Acceptance made her realize that she had it in her to boldly and gracefully handle her own life. She... LATIKA TEOTIA
. . . but it was their relation, and his coming to her like that, openly, so that anyone could see, ... VIRGINIA WOOLF But it wasn’t mine anymore. It was his. I was his. Something in that flirted with the submissive I...
ALASKA ANGELINI [For all that, their work with Bittová has been one of their more adventurous outing...
CARNEGIE HALL It's been so long, just having her around, she brings so much. She was able to take a group of young...
DEBBIE STROMAN
When I was in junior high school, I used to think that Disney's 1990's paranormal television program... REBECCA MCNUTT Xavier has been running the 400 meters so he has a little more strength at the end of his race. He r...
DENNIS SHAVER I came up here for my first Formula Atlantic race in October of 1974 and watched that car win the ra...
BOBBY RAHAL
I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own... PETER S. BEAGLE He started talking about his wife and how she was taking advantage of him, spending his money, ... H...
GARY MCLARTY
Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such storie...
MEAGAN SPOONER
It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver... JIM BUTCHER People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS...
It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped i... DIANA GABALDON
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his... URSULA K. LE GUIN
Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made th... C.S. LEWIS My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whethe...
NATE PARKER She was the first face that students would see when they came into the student union. She had a very...
COLENE LIND She was really excited to see Caroline. Jimmy told Lovett that Caroline was the reason that he came ...
CAROLINE LELAND
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN She comes every day to practice and works real hard. She's a great kid. She gets a lot of offensive ...
JOE RUSSO [For all that, their work with Bittov‡ has been one of their more adven...
CARNEGIE HALL
Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d... LAUREN GROFF
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built ... KURT VONNEGUT JR.
I have so many miles and I've been flying for so long that every time I fly, it's first clas... LUPE FIASCO Lauren had her best race. She has improved every race this year. She is becoming so comfortable with...
KATHLEEN MCCARTHY After we'd been here for a while they told us that there was another woman in labor. It was kind of ...
HEATHER LARDIE She showed him something no one else had ever shown him; that it was possible to love someone more t...
CARLOS SALINAS
It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intima... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they h... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN You knew she was ill. But even through last week, she was upbeat. She was a great coach, but more im...
SKIP BERTMAN
Right from the first, I could see a calmness in you - that sort of inner tranquility that they write... AMOR TOWLES
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life tha... SAM SHEPARD It hardly mattered. She was tired of waiting for him to acknowledge who he was. Tired of donning a f...
ELIZABETH HOYT
At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a pa... DEAN KOONTZ Now kids, if we all could have sex without condoms and getting pregnant. It would halt the progress ...
J C A ROWE It was the first time she's ever done it. She hadn't even practiced it in practice. We just signed h...
TERESA ADAMS My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's na...
AMIRI BARAKA Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w...
COURTNEY CAROLA
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effort... ORHAN PAMUK Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...
LYNNE AMBROSINI To us she was bigger than life. It didn't seem like cancer could beat her. I still come in every day...
MARSHA QUINN It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a f...
ROBERT NEWTON PECK
No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB With an expression that could be mistaken for fear, Detective Duke shivered, but not of terror, more...
T.K. WARE
She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the... THOMAS HARDY
It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a... LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.
JACK PAAR Having sex multiple times on the first sleepover does not count as more than one “date”…
ROWENA CHERRY
Tess's feminine hope - shall we confess it - had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in he... THOMAS HARDY He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How cou...
ANNETTE CURTIS KLAUSE
Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... LEO TOLSTOY She is one of the strongest girls I've ever met and when she connects on a ball, it has a tendency t...
DARCY RIGSBY
Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO
I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's ... ANNA DEAVERE SMITH
He's been around racing for so long, he has such an adept knowledge of racing, and a lot of people d... ROBBY GORDON I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of t...
MEL TORME
It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes w... STEPHENIE MEYER It seems like every time she swims that race she sets a record.
ELYCE KASTIGAR From the first time she entered his life, she stressed him out. He was having chest pains, lying dow...
LAURA MELISI
But it was a happy and beautiful bride who came down the old, homespun-carpeted stairs that Se...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
She could refuse to have sex with me every day for the rest of our lives and I still would choose he... TARRYN FISHER
Molly Ringwald, she's a natural talent. Every girl in this country related to that girl. HARRY DEAN STANTON
If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant bri...
ELIZABETH GASKELL
Those who are purporting this one-world government ideology seek to achieve the pinnacle of power li... JAMES DYE I knew she came out with 31 points last night and I had to 'D' it up on her tonight. I was working a...
BECCA MCARDLE The first three weeks were horrible -- making decisions about having to destroy 25 years of our life...
BETTY RHOADS
I had known Colonel Charlie Flynn since he was a lieutenant 23 years earlier, and I remembered how h... STANLEY A. MCCHRYSTAL
Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my ent... ADRIANA TRIGIANI
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one co... DANIELLE STEEL was not so filled with rancor that I have to see him behind bars for the rest of his life.
PIM FORTUYN She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had t...
BEVERLY CLEARY ...she knew right away she was entering a new world. One she had never witnessed or played a part in...
TALON P.S.
She stayed with Bill until the paramedics came and kept him talking, so Bill wasn't alone. That gift... MICHAEL DAVIS
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic... CARRIE FISHER She was a young thing, a child really, full of hope and light, who’s only friends were the shadows...
LEXIE SYRAH
People sometimes tells me that they're baffled by bisexuality. They are convinced that having sex wi... ARIEL LEVY I had a seventh-grader playing her first singles match today at No. 5, so that was good to see her a...
NANCY CLOUSE There was only one hope she didn't and wouldn't allow herself to hold on to: that if, in almost thir...
INGEBORG BACHMANN I've been here 16 years so I've known him most of his life. Every year I see him in the gym and the ...
JAY MELTON He gave so much of his life to public service, but his family always came first. I'm very proud he w...
BILL STANLEY
I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the libra... 
I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kick... 
I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack. 
The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming t... 
Dick called, but he just left dirty voice-mail messages. Let's just say if I'm ever in the market fo... 
I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too! 
She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges... 
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the pers... 
Anyone who watched George W. and Karl Rove while the former was governor of Texas will recognize a f... 
I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local p... 
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and... 