Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...lik — Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...lik — Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...lik — Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...lik — Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...lik — Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
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Is it the smoke?' the boy said, shivering slightly. 'I've never touched the stuff, myself, but how it claws at one...like a thorn in every one of your fingers, and a string around your heart...and one fees it always. Nagging. Nagging.

— Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
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