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More Than This

Name: More Than This
ISBN: 0763676209

“Books are often described as ‘mind-blowing,’ but this is one of the few books in which, while reading it, I have exclaimed aloud, ‘Oh. My. God.’ on multiple occasions. I won’t tell you anything else about it. Just read it.” — John Green Set

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Patrick Ness (2)

When they were together like that, they had been their own private universe, bounded just by themselves, a population of two. They were the world, and the world was them.

— Patrick Ness, amazon.com

Together Love Relationship Own World

When they were together like that, they had been their own private universe, bounded just by themselves, a population of two. They were the world, and the world was them.

— Patrick Ness, amazon.com

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