“He remembered everything. Maybe that was why he was such a great writer. What he remembered he'd put on paper, but it came out different, more interesting, more exciting than she'd ever been able to imagine.”

—  Patricia Reilly Giff

Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 11-20, p. 90

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