Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 11, Page 351
“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.”
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Jeanette Winterson
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Lighthousekeeping
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