That was the thing about the world: it wasn’t that things were harder than you thought they were going to be… — Lev Grossman
That was the thing about the world: it wasn’t that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn’t expect.
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The dead didn’t mince words.
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