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You couldn’t keep your mouth shut? I’m calling you Glitterhair from now on. Or Talksalot.

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Cinda Williams Chima
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
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Springfield
Ohio
Mouths
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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it. As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.
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But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.
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That's what happens when you love someone... you notice and notice and notice.
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Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
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I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.
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(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.
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If you want to be a writer, you must be in love with the process of writing, whether you achieve financial success or not.
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Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.
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It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.
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She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty.
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Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop. What? What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple. Raisa, this is getting us nowhere. Say it!
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Will you give the girl to me? she said. Will you let me try? He nodded, dizzy with relief. Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter...what happens to me.
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It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket.
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