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“I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn

“One doesn’t just chuck away the story of one’s life, however much one wishes it had read differently.”
― Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Greensleeves

“I wonder’ – Petrova looked up - ‘If other girls had to be one of us, which of us they’d choose to be?”
― Noel Streatfeild

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows