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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
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Texas
United States
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Secrets
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There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.
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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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All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.
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It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.
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Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
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She shrieks above the din. If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.
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Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
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Truth casts a spell of its own.
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Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.
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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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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.
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Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.
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Will you punish me forever?
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Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.
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War. Gorgon spits the word. That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
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She loved attention. It was like a glass of the best champagne—bubbly and intoxicating—and as with champagne, she always wanted more of it. Still, she didn’t want to seem like an easy mark. “If you must know, I’ve come to join a convent,” Evie said, testing him.
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Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.
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The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.
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So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.
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Taylor clapped for attention. “Miss New Mexico, let’s not get all down in the bummer basement where the creepy things live. There are people in heathen China who don’t even have airline trays. We have a lot to be grateful for.
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