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I was just an okay person.

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Scottsdale
Arizona
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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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—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
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What good is strength if you have no sense?
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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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Forgive yourself, but don't forget
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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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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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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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You are actually the worst person I have ever met.
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Clancy had taught me well.
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If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.
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It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.
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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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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 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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But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
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Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.
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