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I refuse to let the past find me here.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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Texas
United States
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You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
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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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It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.
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When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.
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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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It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough you would drown in it if possible.
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The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.
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You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
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Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. “Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.
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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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Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.
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Women who have power are always feared.
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Adina gave a little shriek. That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go? To your right! Two o'clock! Get it! You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.
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I had thought Felicity dangerous a moment ago, when she felt powerful. I was wrong. Wounded and powerless, she is more dangerous than I could imagine.
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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
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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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These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.
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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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He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.
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