She had grown through loss and confusion into a girl who lived almost entirely inside her head, taking refuge… — Sheri S. Tepper
She had grown through loss and confusion into a girl who lived almost entirely inside her head, taking refuge in the places she created there, not so much repulsed by others’ reality as unable to perceive it.
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