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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

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Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a bla...more

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I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disgusted...You wanted to make damn good and sure I'd ...more

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The sun was up, the room already too warm. Light filtered in through the net curtains, hanging suspended in the air, sediment in a pond. My head felt ...more

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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

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There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to...more

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And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.