We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.

Anthony Marra
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  2. No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.

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  4. And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

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