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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.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Worth
Fighting
Change
Men
Alter
Suit
Suits

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Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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I sighed. 'It's hard. You're the only one who listens to what I have to say.' Longshot dropped a gentle, comforting arm around my shoulders. 'Then speak louder, girl. Don't let them put out your spark.
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I know just how he feels that it’s come to this. Sometimes, love isn’t enough, even when it’s all you have.
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Most people can’t stomach silence it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
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Yet sometimes being a friend meant letting people do things that hurt, like putting distance between you, just because it made them happy.
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I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid. Not that, just very focused on killing.
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His face held a certain impassivity you see it in all waiters and valets. They might want to jam a knife through your left eye socket, but you'd never know it from their expression. Working retail, I've acquired a similar look myself.
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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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You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.
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People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don’t change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.
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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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I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is, yet.
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Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.
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Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.
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But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.
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My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.
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Most people weren’t aware enough to fear the things that could really hurt them.
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I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.
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My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong I fed it to keep it running.
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