“When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?”

—  Jenny Han

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

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American writer 1980

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