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

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We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
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I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.
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With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.
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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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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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Survival feels like cowardice.
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We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.
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If you don't tell me what's on your mind, I can't guess
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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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Caring too much could be dangerous I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.
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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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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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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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No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad sometimes it's a matter of indifference, and sometimes it's heartbreaking, and your life is never the same thereafter.
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I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.
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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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After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.
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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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We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his they share a joint sound—that of glass breaking—until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.
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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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