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What you want can be yours. But you must first know what it is you want.
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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You set fire to my house, killed my family, and ate my dog. But steal my boyfriend? That's a step too far.
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It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.
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Adina gave a little shriek. That fish just swam past my leg! Creepy! Where did it go? To your right! Two o'clock! Get it! You are officially the most bloodthirsty vegetarian ever.
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Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
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In every end, there is also a beginning.
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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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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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She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
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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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Petra turned to her. Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now! Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. I didn't mean... No one ever does. Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.
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Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.
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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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I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
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Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
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When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.
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There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.
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You can’t blame a fella for kissing the prettiest girl in New York, can you, sister?” Sam’s grin was anything but apologetic. Evie brought up her knee quickly and decisively, and he dropped to the floor like a grain sack. “You can’t blame a girl for her quick reflexes now, can you, pal?
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Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.
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Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?
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This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can, he says, and I pull him to me.
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