“She had grown through loss and confusion into a girl who lived almost entirely inside her head, taking refuge in the places she created there, not so much repulsed by others’ reality as unable to perceive it.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 7 : dismé the maiden, p. 57

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American fiction writer 1929–2016

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