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They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Ghost
Smile
Getting
Girl
Take
Really
Tea

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When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
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One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
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Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.
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There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.
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Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and then forgotten in a week’s time.
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But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?
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The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again, I say, cheerily. It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.
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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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People aren't always what you want them to be
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.
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But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on.
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Write like it matters, and it will.
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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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My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?
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She's no beauty, mate
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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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