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Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.
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Libba Bray |
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When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.
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Libba Bray |
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What took you so long?" Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of books, which they were tucking into Will's attache case. "I walked to Jerusalem for the Bible. I knew you'd want an original," Evie snapped."
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God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd in..
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godly
lesbian
stupid
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Libba Bray |
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Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?" "You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station."
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Libba Bray |
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I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.
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humour
funny
humor
bikini-wax
girly
shaving
girls
girl
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Libba Bray |
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It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.
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Libba Bray |
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5e0f736
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A place to keep all your secrets
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Libba Bray |
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Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules." You can't really believe that!" I do believe it. That man's misfortune is that he cannot accept his caste, his fate." I know that the Indians wear their caste as a mark upon their foreheads for all to see. I know that in England, we have our own unacknowledged caste system. A laborer will never hold a seat in Parliament. Neither will a woman. I don't think I've..
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fate
destiny
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Libba Bray |
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I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you." --
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love
kartik
gemma-doyle
mistake
forgiveness
father
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Libba Bray |
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Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.
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Libba Bray |
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My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest
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Libba Bray |
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44ff831
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I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.
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Libba Bray |
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f3f7428
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My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?
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Libba Bray |
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People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous," Will said. "There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories."
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Libba Bray |
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He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.
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Libba Bray |
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314d515
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Cash or check?" he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? "Bank's closed, pal."
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Libba Bray |
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It isn't that we do what we want. It's that we're allowed to want at all.
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Libba Bray |
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320d812
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I'm a librarian, not an oracle.
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Libba Bray |
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a21ef28
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We are a country built by immigrants, dreams, daring, and opportunity. We are a country built by the horrors of slavery and genocide, the injustice of racism and exclusion. These realities exist side by side. It is our past and our present. The future is unwritten. This is a book about ghosts. For we live in a haunted house.
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Libba Bray |
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7aa89ab
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I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?
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reading
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Libba Bray |
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7f83170
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Hold up. How do you have sex with somebody?" Adina scoffed. "Is she all, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't see your penis there'?"
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Libba Bray |
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8f29da2
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What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?
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funny
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Libba Bray |
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130dacd
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You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that!
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sailing
sea
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Libba Bray |
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aa2ead5
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Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.
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inspiration
gemma-doyle
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Libba Bray |
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I hate this place," Tiara whimpered. "It's super creepy. Like a haunted Chuck E. Cheese's where the games all want to kill you and you never get your pizza."
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Libba Bray |
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Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not."
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Libba Bray |
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'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.
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Libba Bray |
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The world is a lie...not you and me.
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Libba Bray |
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The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.
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Libba Bray |
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Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.
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Libba Bray |
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Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.
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Libba Bray |
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212d7e6
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We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
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Libba Bray |
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There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.
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Libba Bray |
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a1967ae
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Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it's gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We're all damaged somehow."
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Libba Bray |
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Evie didn't mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
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Libba Bray |
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One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.
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death
love
truth
romantic-ideals
miss-moore
libba-bray
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Libba Bray |
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For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.
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dreams
ghosts
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Libba Bray |
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The wind picks up. It sends leaves scurrying for cover until a softer breeze blows through, settling them down again as if to say, Shhh, there, there, it's all right. One leaf still dances in the air. It spins higher and higher, defying gravity and logic, stretching for something just out of reach. It shall have to fall, of course. Eventually. But for now, I hold my breath, willing it to keep going, taking comfort in its struggle.
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Libba Bray |
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e076fe0
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Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villians... And magic itself is neither good nor bad; it is intent that makes it either.
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Libba Bray |
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1f47dae
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How can my ankles and arms be obscene?
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Libba Bray |
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But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.
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Libba Bray |
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a8072d7
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I know I've done the right thing but I couldn't feel worse about it, and I suppose that is part of what it is to lead.
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Libba Bray |
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I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether ..
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pain
love
lost-love
hurt
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Libba Bray |