She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whethe…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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She repeats things until they are true, or until she can't tell whether they are true or not. She has become an expert at confusing what is with what was with what should be with what could be. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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