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“Lost and aimless, I joined a drama society and met, or rather saw, a boy, the flame around which we, dull moths, amassed.”
― Emma van Straaten, Creep

“And you have no manners!' I retorted.
To my surprise she chuckled. 'That's the spirit,' she said. 'You must learn to stand up for yourself. I am amazed you let those tedious girls in your class make fun of you.
'They call me names,' I said.
'Then call them names too, worse ones. And play tricks on them. That is the fairy way.' said Bindweed.”
― Jacqueline Wilson, Project Fairy

“There was much to mull over, but one sentence kept playing over and over in her mind. “It is a good life.” What would it feel like to say that and mean it? To have a purpose and know you had lived to fulfill it? Was this something that could be learned? Something she could”
― Marie Bostwick, The Book Club for Troublesome Women

“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like the pieces of a magnificent puzzle, or, a better metaphor, if dated, the links of a long chain, and even if those links are never put back together, which they will certainly never be, even if they remain for the rest of time dispersed across the earth like the fragile blown seeds of a dying dandelion, isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of one’s life is preserved in some way, that this very letter may one day mean something, even if it is a very small thing, to someone?”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent