"Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?' Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled."
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"I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends."
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"Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds."
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"Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow."
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"I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success."
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"I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character."
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"Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati."
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"There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs."
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"Just because I don't wear my heart on my sleeve - " "You don't even wear your heart in your chest."
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"that was humanity's problem right there. they are brain damaged from the early sun"
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"How many mistakes can one life survive?"
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"We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make."
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"If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that."
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""I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!""
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"Don’t stereotype, Jenks. HAPA is an equal-opportunity hate group,” I said."
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"What are you doing now?” Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot half hidden behind a curtain. “Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is."
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"I want…” he said, then hesitated, taking a breath of air and lifting his chin. “I want one pure thing in my life,” he said loudly, his voice ringing in the red-tinted air. “I want one thing I can point to and say, ‘That is good, and it’s a part of me."
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"A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere."
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"Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You’re almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet."
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"With a gentle pressure, our lips met. His hands slipped more firmly about me, and I held myself back, not afraid, but wanting to feel everything slowly as I leaned in, tasting the wine on him, feeling the warmth of his body pressing into mine, breathing in our scents that were mingling and changing with the warmth. My hands rose to find his hair, and I relaxed into him as the silky strands brushed through my fingers. I wanted more, and I leaned into him as our lips moved against each other."
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