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41ced6f
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The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.
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manifest-destiny
native-land
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Libba Bray |
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cc76f26
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They're too tired for bathing, but they're not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams.
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db9d91b
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Beside her uncle's picture was his resident permit, which all Chinese were required to carry. To be caught without it could mean prison time or deportation. Ling had been born right there in Chinatown. She was considered a citizen. But under the Chinese Exclusion Act, her father never would be. As for her Irish mother, the moment she married an "Asian alien," she'd given up her chance to become an American citizen. Ling lived with the worry..
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Libba Bray |
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94bb23a
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Go on, darling," she said, batting her lashes. "Tell them the rest." "Riiiight," Sam said, suppressing a smirk."
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Libba Bray |
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3521a97
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Here is the world before you. You have only to reach for it.
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Libba Bray |
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e58e8a1
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Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over,
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Libba Bray |
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4432110
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You know what works? Denial. As a coping tool, denial is severely underrated.
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Libba Bray |
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90e34b3
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Today is a hard day." Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope."
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time
pain
hope
hard-day
hopeful
room
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Libba Bray |
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3498a32
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People will disappoint you. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.
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Libba Bray |
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13f9bb6
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You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes.
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Libba Bray |
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79efaac
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Marlowe grinned. "That so? I couldn't disagree more. Is that Nietzsche talking? Ah, the Germans. We have a factory in Germany, you know. Actually, Germany is a fine example, so let's take Germany: They were crushed in the Great War. Their debt was staggering. A pound of bread cost nearly three billion Marks! The Reichsmark was practically worthless--you'd have better luck papering your house with it than trying to buy goods or pay your bill..
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Libba Bray |
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4b84389
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Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices--and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world.
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Libba Bray |
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5a4b8c4
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if there's anything I'm starting to learn about people it's (a) that they are fundamentally suspicious and afraid of anyone who is "different," and (b) that fear makes them do and say asinine things."
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Libba Bray |
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dd80e02
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What fresh hell is this?" Adina muttered."
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Libba Bray |
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542708d
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I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.
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Libba Bray |
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8f088bf
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Una pregunta para la eternidad: ?esta locamente enamorada de mi la dama que tengo a la derecha?
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Libba Bray |
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a7b06fc
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El viento lo observa todo con indiferencia. Al fin y al cabo, no es mas que el viento.
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Libba Bray |
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bc14767
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Tu madre y yo no aprobamos el alcohol. ?No has oido hablar de la Decimoctava Enmienda? - ?La de la ley seca? Bebo a su salud siempre que puedo.
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Libba Bray |
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463567a
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En opinion de Evie habia pocas cosas peores que ser normal. Lo normal era para los paletos. Ella queria ser especial. Una estrella brillante.
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Libba Bray |
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c82f725
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Modelo? ?Actriz? ?Princesa? Es demasiado hermosa para ser alguien corriente.
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Libba Bray |
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f8a9406
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No se puede culpar a un chico por besar a la muchacha mas hermosa de Nueva York.
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Libba Bray |
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bae5df5
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Bloody clothing is often a clue that something has gone awry.
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humor
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Libba Bray |
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d91c816
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My whole life I've been ordered about. Now I shall give the orders." I've never seen Felicity so wounded. "Not me," she says. "I never ordered you about." "Oh, Fee." The old Pippa surfaces for just a moment, hopeful and childlike. She pulls Felicity to her. Something I cannot name passes between them, and then Pip's lips are on Fee's in a deep kiss, as if they feed on one another, their fingers entwined in each other's hair. And suddenly, I..
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kiss
gemma-doyle
gemma-doyle-trilogy
libba-bray
pippa-cross
the-sweet-far-thing
lgbt
trilogy
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Libba Bray |
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cf8c804
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There is no progress without cost.
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Libba Bray |
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13839cc
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It had been a thudding bore of a day; rain had kept Evie inside at the museum, where she amused herself by rearranging the books on one shelf according to a taxonomy only she understood.
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Libba Bray |
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0c95ee2
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We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. This light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.
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Libba Bray |
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128fc0e
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Kogato za niakoi khora svet't v'rvi tv'rde b'rzo napred, te se opitvat da go d'rpat nazad s's strakhovete si.
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напредък
прогрес
страхове
ясновидците
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7606010
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The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplaced their combs, and yet you were supposed to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.
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Libba Bray |
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c72e1bc
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My aunt says you should only pray to Jesus." Blind Bill grunted and spat. "You think the white folks' god is gonna help you? You think he's on our side?" "I don't think anybody's god is on our side."
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white-people-god
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Libba Bray |
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eb658d5
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Murder was just another reason to drink
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Libba Bray |
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ce1594e
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The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have died and yet other dreams are being born into squalor and poverty, an uphill climb. It gives a slap to the laundry stretched on lines between tenements, over dirty, broken streets where, even at this hour, hungry children scour the bins for food. The wind has existed forever. It has seen much in this country of dreams and soap ads, old horrors ..
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Libba Bray |
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Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag or something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?
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Libba Bray |
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she told Mary Lou about the curse that had plagued the women in her family for generations. Wild girls, they were called. Temptresses. Witches. Girls of fearless sexual appetite, who needed to run wild under the moon. The world feared them. They had to hide their desires behind a veneer of respectability.
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Libba Bray |
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5f8da3a
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There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.
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Libba Bray |
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8e94f1b
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En Nueva York todo el mundo es de algun otro lugar.
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Libba Bray |
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66a71e9
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Bueno..., el viernes pasado, cuando los dos estabamos junto a los buzones... - ?Si? Evie movio las cejas insinuantemente. - Me puse muy cerca de el... - Aja. - Y le dije, asi, sin mas: <>. - ?Y? - Y eso fue todo. Bueno, me contesto que si. Asi que ambos estuvimos de acuerdo respecto al clima.
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Libba Bray |
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1b7ccce
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La vida no viene a buscarte, Memphis. Tienes que ir tu a por ella. Los dos tenemos que ir a por ella. Porque nadie va a servirnosla en bandeja.
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Libba Bray |
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e12288f
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Luce su dolor como un abrigo de plumas demasiado pesadas para volar.
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Libba Bray |
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30b3ddd
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A Evie le daba igual que le gritaran, pero odiaba sentirse juzgada. La irritaba, y hacia que se sintiera pequena, fea y sin arreglo.
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Libba Bray |
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ae2c6eb
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Esto es todo lo que hay para ti? Una gran fiesta constante?
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Libba Bray |
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75111bf
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La linea entre la fe y el fanatismo esta en constante movimiento -respondio el profesor- ?Cuando se convierte la fe en justificacion? Cuando se transforma el derecho en logica y la cruzada en delito?
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Libba Bray |
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fef9fb2
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Si Evie habia aprendido alguna verdad a lo largo de su corta vida, era que el perdon era mas sencillo de buscar que el permiso. Aunque tampoco tenia intencion de pedir ninguna de las dos cosas.
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Libba Bray |
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b95a27f
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Creen que me conocen, pero no es asi.
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Libba Bray |
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3d6eba9
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No me interesa. El amor es un lio, nina. Deja que las demas se vuelvan locas y se hagan ilusiones. ?Yo? Yo tengo planes.
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Libba Bray |