Clams Quote by Anne Sexton

“It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.” quote by Anne Sexton — Download Open image

“It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.”

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