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> [“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of eternity. He was granted an experience that women dream of: he lived when he was mature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/because-jonah-s-real-story-is-the-one-never-told-never-was-he-as/)

[Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/)

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> [“Tom was okay, but we were just pretending to like each other, hoping that eventually, if we pretended hard enough, it would turn real. Maybe it would and maybe it wouldn't. But Jonah was already real. Even Matthew was real,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/natalie-standiford/tom-was-okay-but-we-were-just-pretending-to-like-each-other-hoping/)

[Natalie Standiford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/natalie-standiford/)

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