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It's in our blood to start again.

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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
Blood
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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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What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.
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He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
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Clancy had taught me well.
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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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I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.
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Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.
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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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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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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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Where in the world did you get that dress? Present from Zu. You look like you want to throw it in a fire. I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.
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I don't want to just see someone's face I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude
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The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
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He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
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But part of surviving is being able to move on.
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He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.
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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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I can't make it fade.
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Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?
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