“Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”

— Donna Tartt , book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

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