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I don't break I bounce.
Patricia Briggs
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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
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Don’t lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.
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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
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I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.
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You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
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Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach,” I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. “ ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.
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Do they always flirt with biblical quotes? Asil asked Tad. In long-suffering tones, Tad said, They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys.
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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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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first few pages of my first novel. I can still recite the opening paragraph from memory - only now I cringe when I do it because they are - surprise! - a classic example of overwriting, in addition to being a more than a little pretentious.
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