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Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

Mark Lawrence

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
Author
Novelist
the United States of America
Littles
Madness
Cocoon
Little
Build
Shrouds
Time
Wind
Cocoons
Single
Heavier
Memories
Weave
Bits
Weigh
Grows
Thread
Around
Drag
Shroud

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