You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into s…

Nick Hornby
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You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more. ✨ Nick Hornby (1999). About a Boy, p.63, Penguin
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