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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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They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all.
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The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder. A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, Evie said excitedly. It won't be a minute.
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There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.
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Life don’t come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain’t nobody handing it to us.
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Why does everyone want to own me? Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone? Because you're beautiful, Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. People always think they can own beautiful things.
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I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.
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We've barley stepped into the bright glow of the realms when everything goes dark.
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People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.
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And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.
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There is no greater power on this earth than story.
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I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.
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Reason was for suckers and Presbyterians.
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My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?
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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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Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.
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Truth casts a spell of its own.
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Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s closed, pal.
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She bestowed the blessing of a wild girl's lips.
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They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.
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Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again, I say, cheerily. It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.
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