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Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Janette Rallison

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Janette Rallison
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 1
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Pullman
Washington
C. J. Hill
Sierra St. James
Persuasive
Beauty
Power

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I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy? I gripped the steering wheel tighter. Why do people keep asking me that? He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?
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Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.
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I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.
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Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.
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New York is a nice place. If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.
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Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
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...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.
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Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.
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I will not go on, I thought. I won't. I will throw my soul to the wind and blow into a thousand pieces. I will wash up on a shore somewhere like bleached and broken driftwood. I will dry out in the sun until I-and any gift I ever had-shrivel into the sand.
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Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.
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People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.
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Happy people are rarely interesting.
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You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself. Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought.
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Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.
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The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.
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Wishes are powerful things. You can't expect them to change the world without changing you too.
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