I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through th…

Jeanette Winterson
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I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken? ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2006). Lighthousekeeping, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken? ✨ Jeanette Winterson (2006). Lighthousekeeping, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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