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

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
Broken
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Way
Comprehensible
Complementary
Rendering
Damage
Thus

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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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Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together.
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He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
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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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If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.
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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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For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.
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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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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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People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had
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I found it curious that people kept animals for companionship and not food. When I'd asked Mama Oaks when she planned to cook the fat creature that slept in a basket in the kitchen, her eyes almost popped out of her head. Since then, she'd kept her pet away from me, like she suspected I meant to turn it into stew. Clearly, I had a lot to learn.
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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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