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Amy Smith Linton got a degree in English at Cornell University, scrambling through on scholarships and creative survival skills.

She worked in Manhattan in the storied halls of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, where one of her first authors was the amazing Polly Horvath, who was just finishing The Occasional Cow.

Her fiction has appeared in various magazines, including The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Rosebud, Halfway Down the Stairs, Stonecoast Review, and more.

She reviewed books for Publisher's Weekly magazine and The Tampa Tribune, reported on sailing for The St Petersburg Times and Sail magazine, and did a stint in corporate product development.

When not writing, she can be found racing small sailboats with her husband, Jeff Linton.

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She Taught Me Everything

4.19 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions
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“My sister taught me everything I knew back then. She taught me how to tie my shoes and she made sure I finished my homework. When she shook me awake in the middle of the night and said, “It’s time to get out of here,” I got up and went because it was how she helped me get ready for the world.”
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“My sister taught me everything I knew back then. She taught me how to tie my shoes and she made sure I finished my homework. When she shook me awake in the middle of the night and said, "It's time to get out of here," I got up and went because it was how she helped me get ready for the world.”
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“When the telephone rang in the middle of the night, I knew.
The Tennessee state trooper on the other end said, "Your sister's been hurt pretty bad."
In my haste to get to Nashville I didn't ask a single question.
There had been a car accident. What else did I need to know?
I'd been dreading a call like that my whole life.”
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“I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.”
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“He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.”
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“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”
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“If you see you’re going to get popped in a fair fight, don’t fight fair.”
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“Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.”
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