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Alexandra Bracken
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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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And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
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I can't do this anymore, I cried, Why won't you just leave me alone? Because you would never leave me.
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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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I was just an okay person.
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He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
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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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No spinning, I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.
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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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We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.
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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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Where in the world did you get that dress? Present from Zu. You look like you want to throw it in a fire. I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.
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The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Do not let anyone make you feel like you shouldn't have.
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Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?
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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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He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
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I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.
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Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.
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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 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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I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now. All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.
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