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

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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
Ghosts
Ghost
Memories
People
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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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They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
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So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won’t stop, not ever, until I’ve destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.
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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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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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Where did she come from, and where can I find one? Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.
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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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Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.
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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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Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?
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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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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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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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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 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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If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.
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Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG
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Why are you so weird? Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch. At least what I do is considered an art form. Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-
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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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When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy
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