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We create the illusions we need to go on.
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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Texas
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Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.
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Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments.
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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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Helloooo. Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.
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She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.
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Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.
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Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.
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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell
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The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.
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Women who have power are always feared.
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That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
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The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder. A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, Evie said excitedly. It won't be a minute.
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Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing. He touches his tender jaw. And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing.
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People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.
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Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.
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I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.
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There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.
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They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
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