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I wanted proof, not promises.

Ann Aguirre

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

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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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If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess
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She carries chaos like an overcoat.
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I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.
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Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.
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If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed
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We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.
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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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I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm. My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.
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My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
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Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.
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Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.
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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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More than most, I know the pain of surviving.
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I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.
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Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.
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I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.
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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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But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.
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Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.
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