She was probably the most frightened person she knew. There was no reason for it, far as she could tell. No deep dark secret. No broken past. Her parents had been loving. They’d raised her the very best way they could, and they made sure
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“So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.”
― Sunshine
― Sunshine
“As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.”
― Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
― Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
“Be good... and if you can't be good, be careful.”
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“You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. ”
― The Blue Sword
― The Blue Sword
“My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air.”
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