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Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Heroes
Hero
Places
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Sometimes

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Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way.
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Dying isn’t like living it requires no effort at all.
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People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had
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My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy... or so scared.
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A divided heart offers a strange sensation.
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Caring too much could be dangerous I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
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If I ever win you, he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
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More than most, I know the pain of surviving.
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There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.
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I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.
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I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.
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My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong I fed it to keep it running.
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You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the ability to comfort with a soft touch. I didn't. Instead I had daggers and determination. That would have to do.
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Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.
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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
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How can you miss someone who’s right beside you?
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I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.
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Sometimes I miss the old me.
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After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.
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I wanted proof, not promises.
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