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I worried that what we had wasn’t real and if we pushed it too far, we might see how easily it broke.

Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year, p. 187

Every death is unjust. Everyone who mourns seeks someone to blame. Our fury is almost always met by the merciless insight that no one bears responsibility for death.

Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here, p. 286.
I have nothing in the world! you are all to me; so shall I be to you. I will be your people, your country; I will tend, I will love you!
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, p. 223.

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