Sarah Dessen quote: Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word ...

Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

~ Sarah Dessen ~

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