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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.

Alexandra Bracken

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Trying
Turns
Good
Doesn
Time
Seems
Think
Anything
Throw
Thinking
Everything
Handle
Life
Right
Side
Even
Takes
Heart
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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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So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won’t stop, not ever, until I’ve destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.
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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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Nope, he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. Mine now.
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The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
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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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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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Oh, I'm sorry, Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
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Yes, you are,” Chubs agreed. “But you’re our idiot, so be more careful next time.” “Cosigned,” Liam said, hooking his fingers over mine on top of the armrest.
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Clancy had taught me well.
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But part of surviving is being able to move on.
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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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Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.
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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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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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