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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
Surviving
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh, I'm sorry, Chubs said, 'apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.
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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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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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If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.
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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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That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.
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