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1 " I like how everything echoes with everything else if you listen hard enough "
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave , Julia and the Shark
2 " That's another thing about words: there's space in them. They change according to whose mouth they're coming out of. Sometimes they change so much in mine they become something else entirely, but Dad says these are called lies. "
3 " Remember at the beginning of this story, how I said I lost my mum? Really, what I meant was I lost the idea of Mum. The idea that she was perfect and invincible and always right. But as well as the shark, I found the real Mum, with her complications and tangles and tears, and I love her just as much as ever. More, maybe. I told you to watch out for words, they are tricksy. "
4 " ...which is still not a plot twist I saw coming. "
