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It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

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
Becomes
Goes
Wrong
Difficult
Easy
Everything
Right

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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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As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy’s thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can’t say I’ve heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.
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People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
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We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.
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Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.
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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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He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.
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The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.
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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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She carries chaos like an overcoat.
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He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
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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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Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.
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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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For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.
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In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.
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I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.
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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
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Beyond, the unknown lay before us once more, and another impossible task. The four of us emerged from the earth and turned our steps west, toward the last hope for Salvation.
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Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.
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