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Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

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
World
Inflict
Hurts
Heal
Courage
Takes
Hurt

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But courage wasn't an absence of fear it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.
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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
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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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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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Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.
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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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Sometimes you find your heroes in the unlikeliest places.
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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 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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If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.
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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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He'd said the sun could burn me. It certainly looked angry enough, all orange and glowing mad.
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I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.
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I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.
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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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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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