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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
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Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
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It feels like we should do something, he said. Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory. Chubs raised an eyebrow. It's a minivan, not a Viking.
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Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.
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I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at you, and I love you so much. Not because of anything you've said, or done, or anything at all. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.
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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
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Up! you bag of bones! Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream....... You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!! She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??
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The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.
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If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.
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Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
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You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.
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But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.
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Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
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—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
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He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.
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Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.
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I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now. All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.
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You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.
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We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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