I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster …

Marisha Pessl
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I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes. ✨ Marisha Pessl (2006). Special Topics in Calamity Physics, p.392, Penguin
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I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes. ✨ Marisha Pessl (2006). Special Topics in Calamity Physics, p.392, Penguin

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