Somewhere else Quote by Orson Scott Card

““But I can promise you that there’s somebody else somewhere else who’ll make your god look like a maggot by comparison.””

Orson Scott Card

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I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It felt like crying. We could not look at each other. It always had to be from behind. Like that first time. And I knew he wasn't thinking of me. He squeezed my sides so hard, and…

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