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I refuse to let the past find me here.

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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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We've barley stepped into the bright glow of the realms when everything goes dark.
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The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.
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Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.
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The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.
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No one can live in the light all the time.
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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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Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
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Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
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Petra turned to her. Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now! Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. I didn't mean... No one ever does. Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.
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No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were good people, but they needed the world to bend to them, to fit into their order of things. Evie had never really quite fit, and when she tried, she’d just pop back out, like a doll squeezed into a too-small box.
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I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
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They see her differently now, as somebody. And isn't that what everyone wants? To be seen?
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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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