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One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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Texas
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There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.
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But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.
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...I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.
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Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.
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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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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.
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Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
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Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
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Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.
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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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The wolf was at the door. His shadow spilled into the room, taking it over.
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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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We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I see the addict. And when he looks at me, he sees what he would rather not remember. I wish I could be his adored little girl again, sitting at his side.
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Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.
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No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?
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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.
Libba Bray
I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.
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They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
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The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
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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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