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The hand you hold the longest is your own.
Libba Bray
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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
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She is the elephant’s eyebrows,” Evie whispered appreciatively. “Those jewels! How her neck must ache.” “That’s why Bayer makes aspirin,” Mabel whispered back, and Evie smiled, knowing that even a socialist wasn’t immune to the dazzle of a movie star.
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Just once I’d like to meet a fella who isn’t a phony. Somebody who doesn’t wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
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There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.
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No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.
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He took comfort in the neon signs, the wild strands of jazz creeping out of clubs whenever happy swells of people pushed through the doors in their finery.
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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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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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Goodbye, I whisper at last, when it no longer matters and there is no one to hear it but the window.
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- So my own sister will not promote me? Speaking of which, weren't you supposed to find me a beautiful future wife with a small fortune? Have you had any success on that front? - Yes - I have warned them all.
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Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.
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You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?
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Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia.
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My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?
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We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
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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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What --- you don't believe in true love? Petra asked. The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities? - Beauty Queens
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To live is to love, to love is to live.
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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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I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.
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Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world? Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
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