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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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But hey, what's life without a little adversity? That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.
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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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I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.
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And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
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The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.
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But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.
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But part of surviving is being able to move on.
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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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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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Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
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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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Clancy had taught me well.
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I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.
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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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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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Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
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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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But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
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I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
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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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