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If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.Alice Hoffman
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Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.Christopher Moore
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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?Bertrand Russell
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The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital- H.Dan Savage
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Women have always been spies.Harriet Rubin
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I was about thirteen when I started letting boys feel me up.Rebbecca Ray
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On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.Adam Rapp
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Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw, " that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?Donna Tartt
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On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide–it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese–the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.Jeffrey Eugenides
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All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.S. L. Viehl
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Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.Gail Giles
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On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.Jhumpa Lahiri
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.Barbara Kingsolver
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Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.Laura Shapiro
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Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.David Wong Louie
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.J.k. Rowling
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The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.James Carlos Blake
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Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-seven years: with an idiot–in this case, Rebecca Atherton, head of the After the End Times Irwins, winner of the Golden Steve-o Award for valor in the face of the undead–deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.Mira Grant
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My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man–in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun–holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a horror movie.Mira Grant
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Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas–but not zombies.Mercedes Lackey