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Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
Alexandra Bracken
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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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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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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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You're a wizard, I snapped. Can't you just use magic to make your own food? Ah, yes, he retorted. Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.
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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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Up! you bag of bones! Magister? Gods i was hoping that was a dream....... You're disturbing Ms. Mirabil!!! She's awake!! North said, kicking off his covers and kneeling beside my bed, a bright smile on his face. Hullo my beautiful beautiful darling, feeling better today??
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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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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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I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
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