“Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.”

—  Ann Brashares , book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

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American children's writer 1967

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