Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread. ✨ The Beautiful and Damned.
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