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I was just an okay person.

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Scottsdale
Arizona
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Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you. And that's the definition of a real friend? Oh, yes, just ask Owain. He laughed.
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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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A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.
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Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.
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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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I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,North said.If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.
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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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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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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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That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
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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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The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
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We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.
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I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
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Oh, I'm sorry, Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
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They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.
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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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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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