She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. ✨ Vi…

Virginia Woolf
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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.757, Wordsworth Editions
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