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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
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Purpose
Given
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Grave
Graves
Greatness

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Maybe all crows were just creepy.
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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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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 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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I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.
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Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning.
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They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.
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Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.
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Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them
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Good for you, Ethan. That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.
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Exactly. They're stupid. Who cares? I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid. She waved her hand. The moon blew away. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I looked at her out of the corner of my eye.
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Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single bound or fight Dark Casters with your magic cat. Basically, you're a glorified tour guide who's no better equipped to face a bunch of Dark Casters than Mary P. over here -Ridley
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She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.
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Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox you could only catch it once.
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...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.
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These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.
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Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.
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Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
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Who burns me and shocks me and shatters me with a single touch.
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moments bleed together, no span to time
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