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“Ben and Freda were happy for Cindy. She had recovered from the horrible abuses she had suffered the previous year. Her last bad dream was over five months behind her. Her schoolwork was excellent, and her home and farm chores were done promptly without any supervision. Her face without a smile was a rare sight.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“After World War Two, the Australian army had been re-organised into its peace-time army status. The army was primarily three battalions which together with supporting units, formed a regiment and the battalions making up the regiment were identified by both their number and the title of the regiment. This meant that the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment was identified by the initials of 1RAR. The two other battalions were identified as 2RAR or 3RAR. At the height of Australia’s commitment to the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) Australia had a total of nine battalions which were later called the First Division.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

“Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
― Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

“I walked past Malison, up Lower Main to Main and across the road. I didn’t need to look to know he was behind me. I entered Royal Wood, went a short way along a path and waited. It was cool and dim beneath the trees. When Malison entered the Wood, I continued eastward. 
I wanted to place his body in hallowed ground. He was born a Mearan. The least I could do was send him to Loric. The distance between us closed until he was on my heels. He chose to come, I told myself, as if that lessened the crime I planned. He chose what I have to offer.
We were almost to the cemetery before he asked where we were going. I answered with another question. “Do you like living in the High Lord’s kitchens?”
He, of course, replied, “No.”
“Well, we’re going to a better place.”
When we reached the edge of the Wood, I pushed aside a branch to see the Temple of Loric and Calec’s cottage. No smoke was coming from the chimney, and I assumed the old man was yet abed. His pony was grazing in the field of graves. The sun hid behind a bank of clouds.
Malison moved beside me. “It’s a graveyard.”
“Are you afraid of ghosts?” I asked.
“My father’s a ghost,” he whispered.
I asked if he wanted to learn how to throw a knife. He said, “Yes,” as I knew he would.  He untucked his shirt, withdrew the knife he had stolen and gave it to me. It was a thick-bladed, single-edged knife, better suited for dicing celery than slitting a young throat. But it would serve my purpose. That I also knew. I’d spent all night projecting how the morning would unfold and, except for indulging in the tea, it had happened as I had imagined. 
Damut kissed her son farewell. Malison followed me of his own free will. Without fear, he placed the instrument of his death into my hand. We were at the appointed place, at the appointed time. The stolen knife was warm from the heat of his body. I had only to use it. Yet I hesitated, and again prayed for Sythene to show me a different path.
“Aren’t you going to show me?” Malison prompted, as if to echo my prayer.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Just don't plan on hugs every time I see you.” “The feeling's mutual.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“لقد سأل الكاتب ستيفن ليفين السؤال التالي: لو تبقى من عمرك ساعة واحدة، ولم يكن أمامك سوى مكالمة هاتفية واحدة فمن الذي تحب أن تكلمه عبر الهاتف؟ وماذا ستقول له؟
ولماذا تنتظر حتى الآن!؟”
― Richard Carlson

“What is boredom? Endless repetitions, like, for example, Navidson’s corridors and rooms, which are consistently devoid of any Myst-like discoveries thus causing us to lose interest. What then makes anything exciting? Or better yet: what is exciting? While the degree varies, we are always excited by anything that engages us, influences us or more simply involves us. In those endlessly repetitive hallways and stairs, there is nothing for us to connect with. That permanently foreign place does not excite us. It bores us. And that is that, except for the fact that there is no such thing as boredom. Boredom is really a psychic defense protecting us from ourselves, from complete paralysis, by repressing, among other things, the meaning of that place, which in this case is and always has been horror.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski's

“Even stories need a chance to sleep.”
― Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland

“You want worship for what? For what you give? For how you treat us? For what you allow to happen? For the hatred that exists that you don’t stop? For the violence that you don’t stop? For the death that you don’t stop? Man killing man killing women killing children that you don’t stop. And you want worship? You want us on our knees? You want devotion? You want exaltation? You want faith? A crown of thorns pressed into the skull bleeding at the tips.”
― James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning

“Attached to each arm, as well as the skirt, they looked like an attempt to grow wings.
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― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

“Their branches shook as if trying to dislodge beetles crawling up their bony arms.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

“Anna how could you?” Mary’s fists waved about as if underwater. “You’ve made an A.I. Dee? Are you insane? The damage that man has caused, his criminal nature, how could you? He murdered Agnes, his own mother, for god’s sake.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

“A story is not only what it says. A story is what it does. It infects. Then it propagates.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

“Attention is the rarest currency, and you spent a great deal of yours here. On me.”
― J.K. Franko, What You Let In

“There is no kindness in showing people a door they cannot open.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Some people just don’t appreciate it when you save their planet.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“They had learned, in the deep places, that the light was worth waiting for.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“People just need to be near other people when something has happened that is too large to process alone.”
― Steven Decker, MOTE: SCIFI ADVENTURE SERIES

“Belonging means being part of a place and part of a community, to feel at home with the earth and with one another.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“A home’s value should come from its ability to provide shelter and community, not from its financial returns.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“Looking for missing persons in London had become a nightmare since the war started.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“He was probably wasting his time, but a capacity for idle curiosity was no handicap for a policeman.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“And, as he knew well, ordinary people continued to commit ordinary crimes, regardless of the latest news from Poland or France.”
― Mark Ellis, The Embassy Murders

“People are becoming more and more like pets in digital cages, where the only meaning of their lives is to consume and isolate themselves from others like themselves.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“In the case of our bodies, we cannot sew on additional organs or devices, but people can easily use the existing ‘standard equipment’ of their body, which is ‘delivered as standard from the manufacturer’ but which has huge built-in capabilities for ‘upgrading.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“God has no other hands but ours”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“Great Things Await Us”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Stupid or no, Father, you’re dead – and I’m not.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master