“I love my life, I like to be cosmopolitan, I would like to visit the whole earth and love it all.”

— Annie Ernaux , book Mémoire de fille

Quoted in Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell (Hachette UK, 2021)
A Girl's Story (2016)

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