Joyce Carol Oates book Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Source: Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
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