What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key…

Janet Fitch
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What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me. ✨ Janet Fitch (2013). White Oleander, p.184, Hachette UK
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