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“Ruby understood. She wouldn't have a week ago, but now she did. You won't break. She halted, thinking. It was important that she phrase it well, that she pass on something of what she'd learned about this family of theirs. You think you have to hold it all in, and if you let any of it go, you'll shatter into tiny pieces and you won't know who you are. But it doesn't work that way. It's more like ... opening your eyes in a room you'd expected to be dark. You can see things, and it makes you feel stronger. She laughed. God I sound like Obi-wan on heroin. Jeez Rube, Caroline said, sniffling a little. My little sister has finally grown up.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island