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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
Carpe
Hell
Diem

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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 don't want to lose you —Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?
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Ruby, I lied before. I would have run. —CG
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Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
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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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He's just like a stallion. Wild and kicking on the outside, but a heart soft as satin on the inside. Just waiting for the right girl to break him in.
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Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
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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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He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.
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I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
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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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But part of surviving is being able to move on.
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Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.
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Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
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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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It's in our blood to start again.
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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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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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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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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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