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Heidi Ayarbe

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Young Adult, Contemporary, Suspense

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February 2009

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I spent 23 years growing up and living in Nevada then have spent the last almost-17 living and traveling around the world with my Colombian husband. I've gone down Class IV Rapids (called THE FROG BLENDER) on my butt in Nepal, been thrown down by gusts of wind hiking in Torres del Paine, gone gator looking in the Amazon, and have climbed up a Mayan pyramid at midnight during a full moon. None of that compares to the joy, drama, and fatigue of motherhood.

Much of my time is spent thinking: What if? And then I spend the rest of my time with BIC (butt-in-chair) inspiration.

I have settled in Colombia, South America with my husband and two daughters. When I'm not thinking "what if", I spend my time wiping pureed food substances off my clothes and ...more

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Ahhh ... The New Year Post ...

With its utter lack of creativity. Everything feels so derivative. Everybody's gung-ho, ready to make changes, ready to take tap dancing lessons, learn a new language, travel more, eat less, start a new page of a new book, try chapulines, grow a beard, and be better, stronger, prettier, more handsome, more educated, more cultured, more of the good, less of the bad ... And I don't have much to ad Read more of this blog post »

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	Freeze Frame 4.08 avg rating — 736 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Every action has a reaction,everything we do or say has an effect.”
― Heidi Ayarbe, Freeze Frame

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“Noisy. Quiet places are the noisiest.”
― Heidi Ayarbe, Compulsion

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“I think if there's love, for real, it's not something you ever have to say behind cardboard walls. It should be shouted.”
― Heidi Ayarbe

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“A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, passports

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“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: fiction, humor, lying, on-fiction, writing

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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: on-writing

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“You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'"

"But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

tags: america, diversity, kingsolver, lacuna

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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