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The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Morning
Comes
Wells
Well
Noon
Trouble

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Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it
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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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It's as if I've inherited a skin I cannot quite fit, and so I walk about constantly pulling and and tugging, pinning and pruning, trying desperately to fill it out, hoping that no one will look at me struggling and say, 'That one there- she's a fraud, Look how she doesn't fit at all.
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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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Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.
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Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s closed, pal.
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There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.
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- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all.
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But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?
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Will you punish me forever?
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When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.
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