“It's so hard to understand why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam.”
Paul Weller (singer) (1958) English singer-songwriter, Guitarist
When You're Young (1979)
“There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.”
— Jodi Picoult, book The Tenth Circle
Source: The Tenth Circle
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