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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
Taught
Wells
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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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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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If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
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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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It's in our blood to start again.
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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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Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG
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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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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 don't want to just see someone's face I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude
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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.
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I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.
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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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