You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You … - Alexandra Bracken

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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Alexandra Bracken

You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

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You're a wizard," I snapped. "Can't you just use magic to make your own food?" "Ah, yes," he retorted. "Because mud pies are so very delicious and the wind fills empty stomachs quite nicely.

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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.

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He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

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When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy

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