“I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.”

—  Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

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American children's writer 1967

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