“The trees like lungs filling with air
My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair”
Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.”
— Jodi Picoult, book Keeping Faith
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.
Source: Keeping Faith
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