Carolina Quotes...he had the sense that they were both lonely, albeit in different ways. He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.
Nicholas Sparks Carolinian
Source
Dawson Cole, Chapter 5, p. 78
- work
- The Best of Me (2011)
- year
- 2011
- locator
- p. 78
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