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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
Well

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Dear Dad, When you sent me to school that morning, I thought you loved me. But now I see you for what you are. You called me a monster and a freak. But you’re the one that raised me.
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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. I could kiss you! Chubs cried. Please don't! I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.
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You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.
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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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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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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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—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
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No part of you is dark or ugly,' I said sharply, squeezing his hand. 'Not to me, not ever. Do you understand?
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What good is strength if you have no sense?
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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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