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We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.

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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
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Comprehensible
Complementary
Rendering
Damage
Thus
Broken
Ways

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A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.
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Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.
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I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.
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Survival feels like cowardice.
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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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. . . and I don’t expect him to suborn his life into mine any more than I would change my dreams for him. We’re not one soul, one being, however much we love each other.
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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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He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.
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Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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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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Sometimes I miss the old me.
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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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My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
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For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.
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Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.
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He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met.
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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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There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.
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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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You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.
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