“My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.”
Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”
— Sharon Creech, book Absolutely Normal Chaos
Source: Absolutely Normal Chaos
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