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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
Novelist
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Texas
United States
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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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Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.” “How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.
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It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.
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Im a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera.
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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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I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.
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It keeps her purity vacum-sealed to preserve its freshness for her future husband.
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I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
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Next time we see you, you’ll be on trial for some ingenious crime!” Dottie said with a laugh. Evie grinned. “Just as long as they know my name.
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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.
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There is never any turning back Gemma. You have to go forward. Make the future yours.
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Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?” I grew claws and bayed at the moon. I confessed that I eat the hearts of small children. I told them I like the French.
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Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. “Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.
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May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
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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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Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing. He touches his tender jaw. And you hit like a man. But you didn't cause his illness. That is his doing.
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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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You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.
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The trouble with morning is that it comes well before noon.
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Write like it matters, and it will.
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