That spring, Amelia takes Maya to the drugstore and lets her choose any polish color she likes. "How do you pick?" Maya says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'm feeling, " Amelia says. "Sometimes I ask myself how I'd like to be feeling.

Gabrielle Zevin
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  2. There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison - Jane Austen

  3. It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds... - Unknown

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  5. A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

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