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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Thinking
Choices
Help
Everyone
Making
Helping
Think

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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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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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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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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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Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.
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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
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Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
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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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What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.
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Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
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It's in our blood to start again.
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I can't make it fade.
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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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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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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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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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You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.
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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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Clancy had taught me well.
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The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
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