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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.

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
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Likely
Blade
Fast
Blades
Creatures
Lean
Rest
Deadly
Went
Lightning
Shrieked
Call
Carried
Mournful
Song
Creature
Spike
Death
Ended
Altering

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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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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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She carries chaos like an overcoat.
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Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.
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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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Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.
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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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Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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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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Sometimes the past needed to stay buried it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.
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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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People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had
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I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.
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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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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
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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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Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.
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Did he die well? No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
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