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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.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
Hard
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Invitations
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Hurts
World
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Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.
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It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.
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You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.
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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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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.
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You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
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Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.
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There is no greater power on this earth than story.
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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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