“Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.”
Source: Down the River (1982), p. 81
“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”
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Alice Sebold
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The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
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