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I bet it gets pretty lonely with only your ego for company.

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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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Ego
Lonely
Gets
Pretty

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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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The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
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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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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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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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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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Oh, I'm sorry, Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
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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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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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The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.
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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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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.
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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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If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again - I would, as long as it meant I'd met you.
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Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.
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When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy
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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
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Forgive yourself, but don't forget
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And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
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