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We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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California
Beginning
Always
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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
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To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.
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Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.
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Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.
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The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.
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I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.
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The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.
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