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> [“He was just a sixteen-year old boy who had been killed, a kid whose photo had been in the paper, a kid who would mostly be forgotten by the time the newspaper went into the garbage-yet he was the universe,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/he-was-just-a-sixteen-year-old-boy-who-had-been-killed-a-kid-whose/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

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## More by Nancy Springer

> [I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/i-hope-that-the-kind-reader-recognises-this-as-a-despairing-attempt/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [“Stop it,' he whispered. Hid lidded eyes winced. His hands faltered up to cover his face. Dusty did not stop. 'If I'd known you-if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/stop-it-he-whispered-hid-lidded-eyes-winced-his-hands-faltered-up-to/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [what's life without a spice of stupidity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/what-s-life-without-a-spice-of-stupidity/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/confound-my-genteel-upbringing-i-could-not-think-of-any-name-foul/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/conform-go-crazy-or-become-an-artist/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [“All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/all-the-words-i-had-prepared-turned-coward-and-fled-my-mind-like/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [“He was just a sixteen-year old boy who had been killed, a kid whose photo had been in the paper, a kid who would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/he-was-just-a-sixteen-year-old-boy-who-had-been-killed-a-kid-whose/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [“In the blue sky overhead, larks sang like my heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/in-the-blue-sky-overhead-larks-sang-like-my-heart/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [“Dimly, with her burning heart more than her mind, she began to understand why she had always liked gay men. They suffered, were persecuted,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/dimly-with-her-burning-heart-more-than-her-mind-she-began-to/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [“Three mysteries are grasped by no man: The mistletoe green between earth and sky, The sadness in a maiden’s smile, The runes shaped by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/three-mysteries-are-grasped-by-no-man-the-mistletoe-green-between/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

> [“To her, everything is beautiful in its own way, and everyone is a friend just waiting for her. And somehow it works for her.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-springer/to-her-everything-is-beautiful-in-its-own-way-and-everyone-is-a/)

[Nancy Springer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-springer/)

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