There was something striking about a single key. It was like a questio…

Sarah Dessen
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There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2008). Lock and Key, p.182, Penguin
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