What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetra…

Michael Cunningham
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What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.183, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
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What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. ✨ Michael Cunningham (1998). The Hours: A Novel, p.183, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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