“It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.”

— Gabrielle Zevin , book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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