"[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them."

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His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.

— Shannon Hale