“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.”

—  Jeffrey Eugenides , book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

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