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There occurred an incident that struck me at the time as some kind of supernatural event, but seems to me in retrospect to have been perhaps some kind of fit.

— Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility (2022)

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She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.

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