She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her mo…

Dennis Lehane
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She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence who’d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim. ✨ Dennis Lehane (2010). Shutter Island, p.221, Hachette UK
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