She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing…

Curtis Sittenfeld
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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. ✨ Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). The Man of My Dreams, p.45, Random House
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