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I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly