Public Secrets (1990)
“Two more long, boring, rotten weeks, and she’d be out for the summer. She’d be able to see her father, and Johnno and the rest. She’d be able to breathe without being told she was breathing for God. She’d be able to think without being warned about impure thoughts.
As far as she could see, the nuns must be full of impure thoughts or else they wouldn’t be so sure everyone else had them.
She would be going back to the real world for a few precious weeks. New York. Emma closed her eyes a moment, trying to bring its noise, its smells, its life into her quiet room. With a sigh, she propped her elbows on her desk, slouching in a way that would have made Sister Mary Alice crack her ruler. She didn’t bend over the French verbs she was supposed to conjugate, but looked out over the green lawns to the high stone walls that closed the school off from the sinful world.
Not all the sinful world, she thought. She was full of sin, and was grateful her roommate, Marianne Carter, was equally blighted.
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