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“CHAPTER SIX Nash found Calvin sipping coffee and doing his bookwork. “You got any of that mud left?” “It’s a new pot. Help yourself.” Nash poured himself a cup and sat down across from his friend. “How’s business?” “It’s the same...always the same. It’s not like we get any tourists around here.” “Frank’s recruiting a couple dozen new mappers.” Calvin nodded. “It seems like strange timing.” “You think he’s up to something?” “Maybe,” Nash allowed. “Could it be you’re paranoid? It seems to me we’ve spent a fair number of mornings right here with me counting”
― Arthur Byrne, Map Runners

“Do we take the red one or the blue tunnel?" "I'd describe it as more of an aqua." "Perhaps we should wait for the men and women bearing guns who will be along shortly and ask their thoughts?" "Just because we've had a minor setback that may well result in our deaths and those of everyone left on the ship isn't a reason to get snippy." Nash”
― Arthur Byrne, The Magellan Apocalypse Survival #1-3

“How do you see it going down tomorrow?" "I figure we march in there with a white flag and see what happens." "It's not your most complex plan, dear." "I”
― Arthur Byrne, The Magellan Apocalypse Survival #1-3

“Nash looked down and realized he was still wearing only a towel. “I guess I’ll need to put on pants if I want to govern.” “It would lend an air of credibility to the office.” “Speaking”
― Arthur Byrne, The Magellan Apocalypse Survival #1-3

“Am I going to regret my decision to come with you?" "Maybe yes, maybe no...It depends on if we die.”
― Arthur Byrne, The Magellan Apocalypse Survival #1-3

“Okay, I’ll admit it was fair, but his other stuff is just so bland. It’s like a Dick and Jane book.” “A”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“And in conclusion, the entire body of work was propped up by the journalists, editors, and New York publishing machine that adored the man and had the power to make anyone a star. Ernest Hemingway was not a genius. He was, at best, the literary equivalent of a boy band propped up by the adoration of masses of intellectually bankrupt sycophants. He was a fraud.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Perhaps there is more value in looking inward and asking why I need to have others agree with me.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“your times tables, it’s like a decoder”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“He’s a little old fashioned. Okay, he’s a tad sexist sort of like how hippos are a tad rotund." "Then”
― Arthur Byrne, The Magellan Apocalypse Survival #1-3

“Dad, it’s a degree in reading and making up things about the author’s intent that can’t be proved through scientific method. It’s for people who can’t do math. But I like books, and it will be fun not to have to think for two years.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Even William Faulkner said of Hemingway, ‘He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.’” Billy”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Never had Teddy set down a book by Ernest Hemingway because of a passage so beautifully crafted that it needed to be savored and considered before moving on. Teddy”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“Teddy took to it like a duck to a Disney film.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“On a scale of one to really cool, pet rats fell just below tortoises.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“William Faulkner said of Hemingway, ‘He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“began”
― Arthur Byrne, Killing Hemingway

“that the depth of knowledge required to understand what was and wasn't possible within the confines of the known universe was not within their grasp.”
― Arthur Byrne, The Magellan Apocalypse Survival #1-3

“in the agriculture pod at Jade City. Did they let you in after the attack?” “No, my co-workers said there wasn’t enough. They had kilometers of”
― Arthur Byrne, Map Runners