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Susan Vaught

Website: http://susanvaught.com

astrology sign: Libra

favorite book: Harry Potter (all of them) and His Dark Materials

(all of those, too)

favorite song:I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab for Cutie

current pet total:12 if you don't count the chickens, peafowl,

turkeys, ducks, geese, pigeons, or guineas.

names of my schools:

Vanderbilt University (MS, Ph.D.)

University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) (BA)

Germantown High School (Germantown, TN 9th-12th)

Germantown Middle School (Germantown, TN 8th)

Can't Remember, but the mascot was a purple dragon (Sandy Springs/Atlanta Georgia, 7th)

Green Street Elementary (Tupelo, MS 6th) Frances Patterson was a very cool teacher there. I write because of her.

Pierce Street Elementary (Tupelo, MS 3rd-5th)

Can't Remember, but it was big (Corinth, MS, 2nd)

Oxford Elementary (Oxford, MS, K-1st)

University of Mississippi (Day Care, Playschool)


“I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.”
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“Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.”
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“Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all, and he valiantly overcomes it all.Life isn't like that.Not every hero can stay valiant. Sometimes, they can't even stay a hero, so what does that make them? A failure? A pussy? A total failure jerkwad with no hope on the horizon save finding a cemetery and digging rectangles in the ground for the town drunk?”
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“Five seconds, and my body's humming. I go half-man, half-machine, and my thoughts go straight to touching her more, to how far I want to go, how far she might want to go, and damn, I start to hurt. No amount of music or hard work will fix this. My body's a beast. A beast that's been held back too long.”
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“Her lips taste like mint from toothpaste or gum, or sometimes like cherries or grapes from her lip gloss. She's soft when I hold her, with curves where my hands rest, and when I touch her I think stupid caveman things like, mine and totally mine—oh yeah, and all mine.”
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“Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.”
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“Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.”
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“Even when you know something bad willhappen, you still might not see it coming.”
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