Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Kevin

“‘Sadie, do you see this? This is a persimmon tree! This is my favorite fruit.” Marx picked a fat orange persimmon from the tree, and he sat down on the now termite-free wooden deck, and he ate it, juice running down his chin. ‘Can you believe our luck?’” p. 266

“‘The nurses and doctors say I’m helping. Last week, his grandfather gave me a hug and a slice of mushroom pizza. I don’t see what’s wrong with it.’

‘Yes, but the boy doesn’t know about the arrangement, am I right?”’

p. 23

“Sam asked George what he should order, and George suggested the ‘famous chopped salad,’ which Sam would end up finding watery. They spoke of the Olympics, the family in K-town, the differences between living in New York City and Los Angeles.” p. 84

“He thought it would be like Chinatown in New York, a couple of blocks of apothecaries, gift shops, and restaurants, or like Thirty-Second Street, Manhattan’s Korean row, where he and his mom would sometimes go after a show for bulgogi and barchan. K-town in Los Angeles was massive.” p. 79

“Sadie often found herself imagining a world that didn’t have Alice in it. A world that lacked shared jokes and music and sweaters and par-baked brownies and sister skin casually against sister skin…” p.15

“He took her to an all-night conbini that was a short walk from their hotel. He bought egg salad, chicken croquette, and strawberry-and-cream sandwiches; inari; two liters of Royal Milk Tea. “These are my favorites,” he said. They took the sandwiches up to Marx’s hotel room and they spread their convenience-store feast on a towel on the bed.” p. 232

“‘I fear that you are not eating enough. I can plainly see that you’ve let your hearts get too low.’ Alabaster gave her a can of Pioneer Ade from his inventory. ‘Drink.’

‘I have a pain that exists only in my head,’ she said, once some of her vitality had been restored. ‘I have had it my whole life. But wen I feel that pain, I am incapacitated by it, and I am certain that I can’t go on.’” p. 346

“The Thai food arrived. Dov made conversation as if it were a normal night, and not their last supper. She didn’t have much of an appetite.”

p. 45

Marx came into the newly appointed Mapleworld server room, carrying a tray of champagne flutes.” p. 236

“On the way to the hotel, she spotted a drugstore. ‘I’m going to pop in to get Gatorade and Dramamine,’ she said. She also bought a pregnancy test.” p . 277