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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
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Real friends are hard to come by, and as annoying as Henry is, he'd throw himself in front of dragon's fire for you. And that's the definition of a real friend? Oh, yes, just ask Owain. He laughed.
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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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Everyone needs reality to punch them in the face every once in a while. Keeps you on guard.
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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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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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Forgive yourself, but don't forget
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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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But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.
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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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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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I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator.
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Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.
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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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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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What good is strength if you have no sense?
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The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.
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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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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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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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