This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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