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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Everyone
Ghost
Night
Rise
Else
Finally
Everything
Quiet
Haunting
Mind
Late
Ghosts
Always
Sleep
Filling
Would
Came
Voices
Like
Voice
Soft

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