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“There's no possible universe in which my sister's heart stops beating and I keep on living, unaltered.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“Have you ever been in love?” I ask in return. I don’t know what makes me say it. He nods slowly, like it pains him. “Just once.” “What did it feel like?” He thinks for a moment, his eyes boring into mine all the while. “Like getting run over by a carriage.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“Sometimes I feel like one day every other girl was given instructions on how to grow up, and I missed the lesson.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“But who am I, if not a sister?”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain