“When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
“And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.”
— Gabrielle Zevin, book Elsewhere
Source: Elsewhere
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