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“She said she needed them like air, to breathe. She had more vases than I could count, tall ones and fat ones and glass ones. They were all over the house, flowers in vases in every room. Her favorites were peonies. She kept them on her nightstand in her bedroom, so they were the first thing she saw in the morning. Shells, too. She loved shells. She kept them in hurricane glasses. When she’d come back from a walk on the beach, she’d always come back with a handful of shells. She’d arrange them on the kitchen table, admire them first, say things like, “Doesn’t this one look just like an ear?” Or, “Isn’t this one the perfect shade of pink?” Then she’d put them in order from biggest to smallest.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Best friends are important. They’re the closest thing to a sister you’ll ever have,” she told me. “Don’t squander it.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“So?” Eve said, her expression flecked with vulnerability, her voice tough. “Did I pass your little test?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit