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“By the end of that summer, she was my best friend. By the end of the next, she hated me.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Variation

“So we couldn’t forget what we were. Butterflies are short-lived creatures, and that too was part of her reminder.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Beautiful things are short-lived, he told me the first time we met.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“As you like to say, here’s the thing: most people are missed. I’m sorry that you had such a shitty family. I am. No child deserves to grow up that way. I am sorry no one missed you, but you don’t get to decide for all those other girls that no one’s missing them.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden