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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
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Washington
District of Columbia
Given
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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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Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
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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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I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.
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I am a friend. I have in my possession two thousand assorted buttons, eight hundred keys, and only one friend. Perhaps it is not something you can understand. I have not often been one before. I will be now.
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Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.
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No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.
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