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It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
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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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We have traveled through space and time. We have been many places. Visited many worlds. And there is good news: the acoustics everywhere are terrific.
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What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they were tucking into Will’s attaché case. “I walked to Jerusalem for the Bible. I knew you’d want an original,” Evie snapped.
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Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead just very tired.
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I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.
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The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
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Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it
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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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I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?
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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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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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When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.
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She's no beauty, mate
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What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.
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Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.
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There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.
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No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?
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There is no greater power on this earth than story.
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