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The only thing published by Mereda Farynyk that I've somehow never read.

Oof... my heart.

"He was new every day but also known—fresh enough to be forever enticing but familiar enough to feel like home."

"I couldn’t help but grin back at him. I rarely could. His grin was the type that made you forget about everything else. If Nep was smiling at you, the whole world was. It was as simple as that."

"But I suppose that was the problem, really. I think that maybe Neptune didn’t know who he was, deep down. And that maybe that’s why he was so interested in every little thing I had to say. Maybe it didn’t have anything to do with me at all. Maybe he was searching for himself, somewhere in the niches and grooves of what I told him."

"He looked at me with the kind of half smile that could have denoted understanding and could have meant that he had no idea what I was talking about."

Haven't read this little novella in 6 years...