“A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.”

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Australian teen writer 1965

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

“Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things were okay for a little while.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Funny, I never shopped. Even my jewelry — not a piece of my jewelry I bought for me.”

Imelda Marcos (1929) Former First Lady of the Philippines

Asserting that all of her jewelry were gifts from her husband, children and "even the dog," as quoted in an Associated Press report (April 1998).

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

As quoted in The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
Posthumous attributions
Context: If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.