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I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
Writer
Texas
United States
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Pike
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In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.
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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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Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept her mouth hung open and she snored very lightly, and this, despite everything that had happened, made him smile.
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I wouldn’t expect you to get it, Daisy. You don’t look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody’s gotta explain the pictures to you.” Daisy’s mouth hung open in outrage. “Well, I never!” “Yeah, that’s what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren’t buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!
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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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Will you punish me forever?
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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What happened to the winner Adina asked. She tripped. And the first runner-up? Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. She tripped, too.
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They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.
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Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.
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You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine
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You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
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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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To live is to love, to love is to live.
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I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
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The uncertainty of our future is nothing more than a fog of breath on a windowpane.
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Everything is randomly connected.
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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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Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?
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Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?
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