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I’m the new popular girl in school now. Everyone’s carrying me around the dance floor chanting my name. She puts her phone
“Ranko was hosting a picnic the next day and he invited me along. And that was it, I was lost. So much of sex is in the nose. I do believe that. And he was in love with me too.”
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― The Great Believers
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― The Coin
“She moved her finger on the screen to the third row, the second man. Dark curly hair, a long slit of a mouth. Hair slicked and parted down the middle. A skinny, floppy bow tie.
What had been so special about hm? Fiona didn't know what she'd expected, but something more than this. Ranko Novak was worth seventy years of devotion. Ranko Novak was irreplaceable, a hole at the center of Nora's universe. And this was it? A face, two eyes, two ears.
Well, try telling that to someone in love.”
― The Great Believers
What had been so special about hm? Fiona didn't know what she'd expected, but something more than this. Ranko Novak was worth seventy years of devotion. Ranko Novak was irreplaceable, a hole at the center of Nora's universe. And this was it? A face, two eyes, two ears.
Well, try telling that to someone in love.”
― The Great Believers
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