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“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their uncanny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight and read your mind”

Quote by Claire Keegan

Book:Small Things Like These

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Small Things Like These

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Claire Keegan, born in 1968, is an Irish writer known for her profound emotional depth and delicate narrative style. Her works primarily focus on the lives of ordinary people and their place in society. more

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