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I wanted proof, not promises.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Promises
Proof
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Wanted

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His face held a certain impassivity you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.
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For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.
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Perhaps that was the point life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)
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He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.
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Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
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Did he die well? No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
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I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.
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There’s a reason I hate jigsaw puzzles. I don’t have the patience to find all the border pieces, especially when they’re all the same shade of gray.
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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.
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He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all.
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Love can make us do dreadful things.
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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
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Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don’t want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won’t tell me what I want to hear.
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I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.
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Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.
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Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.
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But courage wasn't an absence of fear it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
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