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If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen 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
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Heart
Shouldn
Happen
Break
Happens

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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 can't do this anymore, I cried, Why won't you just leave me alone? Because you would never leave me.
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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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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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I don't want to just see someone's face I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude
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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
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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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—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
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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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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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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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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 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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No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?
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Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
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Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.
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