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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
Exposed
Loses
Secret
Truth
Power

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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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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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For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice.
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Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.
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He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.
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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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Don’t let them see you weak.
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Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.
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I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.” But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.
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Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.
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Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.
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Did he die well? No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.
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He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.
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No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.
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I wanted proof, not promises.
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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.
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Dying isn’t like living it requires no effort at all.
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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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