“She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”

— Ann Brashares, book Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

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American children's writer 1967

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