You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, co…

Jonathan Tropper
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You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel, p.144, Penguin
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You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel, p.144, Penguin

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