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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
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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 can't make it fade.
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I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.
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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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A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.
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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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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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Clancy had taught me well.
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You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.
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What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.
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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 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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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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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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That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
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