“But that was a realworld, and he didn't have to put it down on paper. He ripped the page out of the book, tore it into shreds, and threw them behind the tree, where they settled into the weeds.”

—  Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 1-10, p. 15

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