“I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.”

—  Sarah Dessen , book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

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