“No little appetite or pain, no carelessness or meanness in him escaped her; no thought or dream or longing in him ever reached her. And yet several times in her life she had seen the stars.”

—  John Steinbeck, book The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down (1942), p. 7

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