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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

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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Mind
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Hypnotism
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Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are
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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 told myself it was the snow—she couldn’t possibly get to Philadelphia on the roads. I told myself a hundred lies. Children do that. It’s amazing the sorts of things you’ll make yourself believe.
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If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like And don't forget my soda, punk while I strolled off into the night.
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That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
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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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But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?
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We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty
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The desperation meeting the silence with its unmasked wish.
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I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?
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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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My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preachers Kids. Be afraid.
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She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.
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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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Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.
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Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.
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She's no beauty, mate
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There is no greater power on this earth than story.
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There are no safe choices. Only other choices.
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