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that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years. - you may be gone, but i still have a stomachache.
“The distance between us narrowed until I could feel his breath on my mouth. The next second, the room exploded with noise and I came back to earth so fast it winded me.”
― The Close
― The Close
“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
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“Look, I’m not having this conversation. Not here in the middle of the road.’ ‘Is that it? That’s your response?’ ‘Shut up,’ he said through gritted teeth. I was angry enough and unwise enough to snap back. ‘Make me.’ Something flickered in his eyes and I knew what he was going to do before he did it: a stride as smooth as a dance step, his fingers caught in my hair, his mouth on mine. Inevitable. I asked for that, I thought, stuck to the spot like a moth with a pin through it.”
― The Close
― The Close
“When you look at him, you smile.’ I laughed. ‘Well, that’s not so bad.’ ‘Yes, but when he looks at you,’ Ruth said, ‘he looks sad.’ My smile faded. ‘Does he? What does that mean?’ Judy put her hand on my shoulder and squeezed it, her nail varnish pearly in the light of the setting sun. ‘It means you’re going to break his heart.”
― The Close
― The Close
“Before you say anything, there was someone right behind us. I had to shut you up in case you gave us away.’ ‘Is that it? That’s the reason you crossed that particular line?”
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