Real world Quote by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

“How could the people around me not see that I’d been spending my day in nineteenth-century Kansas, or in the pit of a giant peach? It was like I was the only one living in the real world, and they were skating blindly over an opaque surface above me.” quote by Elizabeth Joy Arnold — Download Open image

““How could the people around me not see that I’d been spending my day in nineteenth-century Kansas, or in the pit of a giant peach? It was like I was the only one living in the real world, and they were skating blindly over an opaque surface above me.””

Elizabeth Joy Arnold

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