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I don't trust her more than I can run full-steam in a corset. — Libba Bray A Great and...

I like that the Mall serves as our national Tupperware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever. — Sarah Vowell Assassination...

Perhaps thee will best understand what Abigail is like if I tell thee that when she quilts she prefers to stitch in the ditch, hiding her poor stitches in the seams between the blocks. — Tracy Chevalier The Last Runaway

I take a long drag on the Malediction like maybe it'll start a tornado and carry me back home like Dorothy. — Richard Kadrey The Kill Society

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind. — Douglas Coupland Miss Wyoming

He looked more dead than many corpses — Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep

You will see me, like a mountain animal, bitter little animal — Anne Carson Grief Lessons:...

It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. — Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged

"The weapon is poison,' Kit said. 'I believe that the cause we carry it in is just, but that will not protect you. It is not only death to those whose skin it cuts; it holds a deeper violence within it. If you carry it-just that, carry it and nothing more-the poison will still affect you. In time, you will grow ill from it, and eventually, inevitably, it will kill you.' 'It's a sword, Kit,' Marcus said, lifting the green scabbard from its place. They're all like that." — Daniel Abraham The Tyrant's Law

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor....

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive, when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

...maybe you believe that we fall into our future blindly, drifting from adventure to adventure, our journey zigzagging not according to plan but according to pure chance. Or just maybe, as random and...

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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