“My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.”

—  Gabrielle Zevin, book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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