“He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once.”

—  Gail Carson Levine , Ella Enchanted

Source: Ella Enchanted

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American writer 1947

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