“And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.”

Source: United We Spy

Variant: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Campaign speech http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/08/remarks-president-campaign-event, Grand Junction High School, Colorado, , quoted in<br>Furthermore compare what Obama said in 2009 <br class="br">2012 <br class="br">Context: Now, when we came together, we knew restoring that bargain — that deal, that compact — was not going to be easy. We knew it would take more than one year or one term or maybe even one President, because we had seen what had happened in the previous decade. Jobs had moved overseas. Folks were working harder and harder, but their wages or incomes, they were staying flat, sometimes even going down. The cost of everything from health care to college was going up. And then, it all culminated in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression — a crisis that robbed too many of our friends and our neighbors of jobs, the value of their homes, their savings. And all that pushed the American Dream even further out of reach for too many working people.

Source: That Summer (1996)

Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: A Wolf at the Table