“Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.”

—  Ann Brashares , book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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American children's writer 1967

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