“All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek.”
Gregory Maguire
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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