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Clancy had taught me well.

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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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Wells
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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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I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
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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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The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
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But part of surviving is being able to move on.
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Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG
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Yes, you are,” Chubs agreed. “But you’re our idiot, so be more careful next time.” “Cosigned,” Liam said, hooking his fingers over mine on top of the armrest.
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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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I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
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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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But hey, what's life without a little adversity? That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.
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You're a wizard, I snapped. Can't you just use magic to make your own food? Ah, yes, he retorted. Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.
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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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We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.
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