“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“You never knew what you could get away with until you tried.”
— Karen Marie Moning, book Darkfever
Source: Darkfever
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