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Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces— and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.
Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces— and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.
Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
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- Lauren Oliver
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- Approximate author period: c. 1982 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1982; activity date not established; Wikidata Q59152, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59152 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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