Quote by Lucretia Grindle

“Old and blended in, another worn feature of this worn city that no one notices much and no one will miss. How, she wondered, does that happen? In what year is it, exactly, that we begin to vanish, to fade into our surroundings as if they are absorbing us, pulling our bones back home?” quote by Lucretia Grindle — Download Open image

““Old and blended in, another worn feature of this worn city that no one notices much and no one will miss. How, she wondered, does that happen? In what year is it, exactly, that we begin to vanish, to fade into our surroundings as if they are absorbing us, pulling our bones back home?””

Lucretia Grindle

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