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“He was glad about the erasure. It was just one more way to eliminate Lucy Gray from the world. The Capitol would forget her, the districts barely knew her, and District 12 had never accepted her as one of their own. In a few years, there would be a vague memory that a girl had once sung in the arena. And then that would be forgotten, too. Good-bye Lucy Gray, we hardly knew you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You eyes are wide open, but you see nothing.”
― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year

“All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I think growing up is one very long grace year. I mean it's brutal for girls, right? We place this impossible set of standards on them, and project all of our fear and desire on them, and when they falter, they're entirely to blame.

--An Interview with the Author at the end of the book”
― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year