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But part of surviving is being able to move on.

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
Moving
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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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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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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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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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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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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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