Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

Gabrielle Zevin

• Children
• Night
• Unbearable

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• Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Children
  • Night
  • Unbearable