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Being a martyr is highly overrated.

Patricia Briggs

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Moonlight streamed in, sending loving beams over his face. He closed his eyes and basked in it, and I could tell it was calling to him, even though the moon was not full. She didn't speak to me, but Samuel had once described her song to me in the words of a poet. The expression of bliss on his face while he listened to her music made him beautiful.
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That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.
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Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.
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