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He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

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
Saint
Lifetime
Deserve
Happiness
Sadists
Peace
Gutters
Never
Palaces
People
Earned
Saints

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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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In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.
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Survival feels like cowardice.
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I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.
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I admired Stalkers style. He was incredibly fast using two small blades strapped to the backs of his hands. Slash slash slash. Fighting him you wouldn’t die of one great wound but instead bleed out slowly surprised to find yourself weak and dying after a thousand cuts.
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This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.
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Did he die well? No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.
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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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Love can make us do dreadful things.
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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 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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Most people can’t stomach silence it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.
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Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.
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While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.
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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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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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There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.
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Caring too much could be dangerous I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
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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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People grew lazy. They knew too many blessings, and so lost the ability to appreciate what they had
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