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Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1)

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The Bombshell

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“You must not allow yourself to be consumed so thoroughly by death. It’s not selfish to live.”
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“That was the cruelest irony: the more you did to save yourself, the less you became a person worth saving.”
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“It was an eternal feeling, this sense of being unwelcome. No matter where she was, Effy was always afraid she was not wanted.”
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