With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the …

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With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty. ✨ Scott Westerfeld (2010). Pretties, p.297, Simon and Schuster
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With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty. ✨ Scott Westerfeld (2010). Pretties, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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