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"When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home."
— Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton)
— Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton)
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