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" She's jealous. Catkin is jealous because I'm younger then her but I've done more. Because she wants to know how it would be to stop a lift, to undo a fly, to do the thing that I did, to have a boy say I love you in that desperate, strangled voice, as though you had unlocked the very essence of him and given him the key. She wants to know and she doesn't and she can't because she is trapped here in this park. Trapped in this place that has not let her grow, has not given her the space to be something more than her parent's daughter, her sisters sister. And she is scared. Because she knows all this. And here am I, thinks Grace-thirteen years old. Thirteen years old. "

Lisa Jewell , The Girls in the Garden


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Lisa Jewell quote : She's jealous. Catkin is jealous because I'm younger then her but I've done more. Because she wants to know how it would be to stop a lift, to undo a fly, to do the thing that I did, to have a boy say I love you in that desperate, strangled voice, as though you had unlocked the very essence of him and given him the key. She wants to know and she doesn't and she can't because she is trapped here in this park. Trapped in this place that has not let her grow, has not given her the space to be something more than her parent's daughter, her sisters sister. And she is scared. Because she knows all this. And here am I, thinks Grace-thirteen years old. Thirteen years old.