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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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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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Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.
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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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Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I’m not your parents. I’m not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.
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You're a wizard, I snapped. Can't you just use magic to make your own food? Ah, yes, he retorted. Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.
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The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.
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If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
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I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side.
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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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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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But part of surviving is being able to move on.
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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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Clancy had taught me well.
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I can't make it fade.
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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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Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
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Owain crossed his arms over his chest. I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now. So, in other words, North said, you're living in poverty?
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We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.
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Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG
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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
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