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“I was exhausted, and even though I knew it’d be my last night in my own bed, I fell asleep right away and didn’t wake up until Mother called me at five-thirty the next morning. Fortunately, it wasn’t as hot as Sunday; a warm rain fell throughout the day. The four of us were wrapped in so many layers of clothes it looked as if we were going off to spend the night in a refrigerator, and all that just so we could take more clothes with us. No Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes. I was wearing two vests, three pairs of pants, a dress, and over that a skirt, a jacket, a raincoat, two pairs of stockings, heavy shoes, a cap, a scarf and lots more. I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“One of the rules of the Detective Society is that we never say no to tea.”
― Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder

“A game is worth playing if you stand a chance at winning.”
― V.E. Schwab, Shades of Magic Vol. 1: The Steel Prince

“Strangers are just friends we haven’t met yet.”
― Peter Swanson