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In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it? No, I say. I suppose it only makes everything known.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Happiness
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Punished
Truth
Prevail
Everything
Wicked
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Suppose
Really
Fine
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.
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Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged? The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. We’re all damaged somehow.
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Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. “I’m embalmed.” “Potted and splificated?” “Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.
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He frowns. A dance with the carnivorous Felicity? Why? Has she eaten all the other available gentlemen?
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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
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I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.
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I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.
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Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.
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Truth casts a spell of its own.
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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Goodbye, I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.
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When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
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She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.
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I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
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No one can steal our dream.
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Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.
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Judge not, lest ye be judged.
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Why does everyone want to own me? Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone? Because you're beautiful, Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. People always think they can own beautiful things.
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