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  1. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything.
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  2. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    My head kinda hurts," Miss New Mexico said. Several of the girls gasped. Half of an airline serving tray was lodged in her forehead, forming a small blue canopy over her eyes.
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  3. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    Well frankly, that's the sort of stuff I expect my critics to say, because they want to turn all women into sluts who can get an abortion at the drive-through while they're off at college gettin' indoctrinated with folk-singin', patchouli-wearin', hairy-armpit-advocatin' feminism, which is just one step away from terrorism, and we should be afraid of that.
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  4. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    It's just too bad they have to die. They're totally bangable, you know?" "Bangable," Taylor mouthed in disgust. She wanted to show this boy another meaning for the word bang, and it involved his head against a steel door.
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  5. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplaced their combs, and yet you were supposed to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.
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  6. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    My musical cutlery skills have landed me in the top concert halls of Europe. The Queen yelling out, 'Spoon solo!'" Duff played a mock spoon solo against his thigh, then made crowd sounds. "Of course, there was that tragic spork incident at the Hollywood Bowl. We don't talk about that." "You don't play anything, do you?" "Not a thing. I am completely and utterly useless.
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  7. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    Nicole did what she'd been taught since she was little and her parents had moved into an all-white neighborhood: She smiled and made herself as friendly and non threatening as possible. Its what she did when she met the parents of her friends. There was always that split second- something almost felt rather than seen- when the parents' faces would register a tiny shock, a palpable discomfort with Nicole's 'otherness.' And Nicole would smile wide and say how nice it was to come over. She would call the parents Mr. or Mrs., never by their first names. Their suspicion would ebb away, replaced by an unspoken but nonetheless palpable pride in her 'good breeding,' for which they should take no credit but did anyway. Nicole could never quite relax in these homes. She'd spend the evening perched on the edge of the couch, ready to make a quick getaway.
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  8. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    My family traditions are alcoholism and dysfunction," Jennifer said. "Oh, and anything you can make from government cheese.
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  9. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    Holy f---!" she managed before going under again, as if the water sensed that young ladies of such beauty and promise should never curse."
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  10. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    she told Mary Lou about the curse that had plagued the women in her family for generations. Wild girls, they were called. Temptresses. Witches. Girls of fearless sexual appetite, who needed to run wild under the moon. The world feared them. They had to hide their desires behind a veneer of respectability.
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  11. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag or something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?
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  12. Libba Bray _ Beauty Queens

    What fresh hell is this?" Adina muttered.
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