Bad Dreams & Other Stories Finish The Quote

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She should be more thoroughly embarked

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on her teenage self

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Jane Allsop was abducted when she was fifteen,

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and nobody noticed.

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Jane confessed she had always felt

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on the wrong side of a barrier

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He’s had too much

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happiness in his life since, too much experience

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its reality had taken up residence

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inside her

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you couldn’t undo the knowledge of the thing

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with the same calm ease with which you had taken it in.

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this French cupboard which had been so prosaically ordinary

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could transform itself into the scene of such revelations

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She had forfeited the white flower of a blameless life,

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she wasn’t the kind of woman a man would go to war for

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she couldn’t get rid of the terrible knowledge

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that Dom had brought

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something headlong and reckless and sweet,

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unavailable to children.”