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Set in the backdrop of a small Florida town, the story follows a young protagonist on a quest to find a missing person, intertwining personal growth and the mysteries of the past.
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“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”
“Physical space between us evaporates. We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time”
“I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me.”
“But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.”
“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
“The rules of capitalization are so unfair to words in the middle of a sentence.”
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.”
“My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.”
“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
“Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.”
“Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.”
“I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.”
“At least I carpe'd that one diem.”
“All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.”
“All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.”
“Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.”