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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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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Destroy
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Factory
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Factories

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Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.
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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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I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.
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I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,North said.If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.
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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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Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I’m not your parents. I’m not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.
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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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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side.
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Owain crossed his arms over his chest. I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now. So, in other words, North said, you're living in poverty?
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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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You are actually the worst person I have ever met.
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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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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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—I don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
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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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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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But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.
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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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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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