I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were …

Sarah Dessen
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I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark. ✨ Sarah Dessen (2004). This Lullaby, p.115, Penguin
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