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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

Alexandra Bracken

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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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Memories
People
Haunt
Ghosts

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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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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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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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We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.
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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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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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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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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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Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.
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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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Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.
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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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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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Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
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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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Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG
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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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Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
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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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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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