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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 16
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The first time I kissed you, you had just cut off your hair with a plastic knife. You were in restraints and your lips were completely chapped and dry from the tranquilizers. The next day you tried to kill me with a torn-off piece of bedsheet. I've seen you at your worst. You hardly need to dress up for me.
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The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.
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Live it well and this life can be grand.
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Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph over the simple joys. Stand back and watch, because you're going to be here when we fall.
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Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
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I could not cry for my own brother he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to. (page 8)
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A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.
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I want to chase the butterflies.
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But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
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I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.
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My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.
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Insanity makes the rivers flow.
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Ever hear the expression write what you know? My version says write what you want to know. If you want to know about the history of Spain, write about the history of Spain - fiction or nonfiction. If your fascinated by the old west, maybe your character lives there.
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I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
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We are not. We never were we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.
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Fate has a twisted sense of humor.
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Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh she gives and she takes.
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You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?
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I ask for trust. It is a lot, I know it isn't easy to give. But it is all I ask.
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They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.
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