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Jacqui

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“But this time when I pull away from him, it is agonizing. Not found, but lost. I pause, stand on the precipice of memory, wanting so desperately to fall into it, knowing I can't. Jonas is animal, Peter is mineral. And I need a rock.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“He's right. The kids are happy. It's not their fault I fucked Jonas.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“If I could fly backward, I would," I said. To the safety of branches, to the time when my heart raced for him like a hummingbird's, 1,200 beats per second. And he said, as he always did, "I know.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“He takes my hair in his fists, kisses me. Rough, hard, unhinged. I don't want to give in, but I kiss him back with a love that feels like drowning. The breathless desire to breathe.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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“Nice is the enemy of interesting.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace

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