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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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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Untested
Insists
Protected
Remain
Magic
Lives
Keep
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I change the world, the world changes me.
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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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Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine
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I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.
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...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
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Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.
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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
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Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead just very tired.
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You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!
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She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.
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To live is to love, to love is to live.
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I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity bars. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
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It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.
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We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty
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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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