I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting

Maggie Stiefvater
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I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name. ✨ Maggie Stiefvater (2009). Shiver, p.143, Scholastic Inc.
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I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name. ✨ Maggie Stiefvater (2009). Shiver, p.143, Scholastic Inc.

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