Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every mornin…

Veronica Roth
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Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime. ✨ Veronica Roth (2012). Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene, p.7, Harper Collins
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Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime. ✨ Veronica Roth (2012). Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene, p.7, Harper Collins

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