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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
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the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Saints
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Lifetime
Deserve
Happiness
Sadists
Peace
Gutters
Never
Palaces
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What was the good of having such a fine home if you weren't willing to fight for it?
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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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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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But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.
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Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.
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With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.
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My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.
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He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.
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If I ever win you, he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
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If this is the last time, let me say it so you never forget. I will always love you, Deuce. No matter where souls go, mine will be looking for you, solnyshko moyo. No. I want a promise instead. Promise you'll fight like you never have, so when the dying stops, you'll be on your feet looking for me here. I swear.
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I couldn't help what I'd done before I learned it was wrong. I could only do better in the future.
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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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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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Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing. [He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?
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Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.
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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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My heart shifted a little in my chest it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.
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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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He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.
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