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We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

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Kami Garcia
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 25
Artist
Novelist
Teacher
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Washington
District of Columbia
Great
Purposes
Grave
Graves
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Given
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Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.
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Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox you could only catch it once.
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the missing piece my breath my heart my memory me the other half the missing half
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red plastic rain her tears stain
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bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met
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surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain
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It was unbelievable. She was standing there, staring at him like he was a real rock star.
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When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?
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South of Somewhere and north of Nowhere.
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Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read
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Don’t think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences.
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It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.
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I don’t think Kitchen makes this. What’s it called again? Jell-O Surprise. Link grinned. What’s the surprise? Ridley examined the red gelatin more closely. What they put in it.
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And you can look up just about anything, even dirty pictures. Every now and again, the dirtiest pictures you ever saw would pop up on the screen. Imagine!
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Funny thing is, until I met you all I wanted to do was to get as far away from here as I could. Kind of ironic, isn't it? Can't get much farther away than where Im going, and now I'd give anything to stay.
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I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.
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And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.
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I hadn't fallen through his arms. He was ripped from mine.
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You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
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