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Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.

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Meg Cabot
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 1
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and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's prone body. Mrs. Allington shakes her head. I'm a size twelve, she says.
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Looks fade,' Mom would go on. 'But intelligence lasts forever.
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You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me? What is wrong with you?
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But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.
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Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.
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You just said you were sorry. ... I was only apologizing, he said stiffly, for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-
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Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. For me to store my novel on, since he was right - I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it - it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes.
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Life's not easy for unicorns, you know. We're a dying breed.
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We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.
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I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?
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It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.
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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
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I've only been gone a week, I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.
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A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.
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I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.
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It's simple, really, Alaric Wulf said. Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness. Jon nodded. Yeah, he said. We know. He's got a castle and stuff.
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Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish
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Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.
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You didn't, John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, even hit your head this time.
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