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Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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Texas
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Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world? Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
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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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And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.
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The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.
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Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.
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We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
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Does my new feminism make me look fat?
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She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.
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She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.
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People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.
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In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it? No, I say. I suppose it only makes everything known.
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Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged? The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. We’re all damaged somehow.
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It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.
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What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?
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How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.
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When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.
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I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.
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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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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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