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Donna Tartt
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dyspepsia »
(noun) indigestion; ill humor; disgruntlement
p.120
pallid »
(adjective) deficient in color; wan / (adjective)…
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caviling »
(verb) to raise trivial and frivolous objection /…
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He had lost me. In the shadowy room, a single blade of sun …
“No, not really,” I said curtly. Better wasn’t even the wor…
Abruptly, my father said: “Your mother wasn’t so easy to li…
[...] I myself had come upstairs unexpectedly on the day in…
And the strange thing was: I knew that most people didn’t s…