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“This tiny patch of rocky ground took up an immense amount of space in the minds of millions of people, as it had for millennia.”
― N.S. Wikarski, The Arkana Mysteries: Omnibus Three: Books 6-8

“Sometimes, I think that we each inhabit alternative bubbles of reality.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“We’re waiting for the day when archaeology and history catch up with us.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“We can let down our collective guard and pretend to be tourists for an entire week, satisfying your wanderlust and my own need for a low level of danger.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“The sad part isn’t getting over a loss. It’s far sadder to try to cling to something that’s gone.”
― N.S. Wikarski, Lucifer's Triangle

“Are you living on Someday Island, always waiting for a breeze that never comes?”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

“Two lives call out. Résumé life and eulogy life. One is a list. The other, a story.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

“The world will try to make you efficient at meaningless things—busy, polished, perfectly useless. Don't fall for it. Efficiency is only noble when it serves purpose.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

“Money is a tool, never the master. A Wealthy Soul uses money to serve God and people, not the other way around.”
― Dr. James Rachor, Wealthy Soul: A Guide to a Thriving Life with Meaning, Peace and Abundance

“The supposition was that the difference in energy when n (or v) changes by one is therefore equal to hv, the product of the Planck constant and the vibration frequency was always derived using these pre-revolution mechanics. This was, of course, dependent on gravity having an effect on an atomic level, while acknowledging that it does not. Absurd right? But for a transition from level n to level n+ one due to absorption of a photon, the frequency of the photon has nothing to do with Planck…”
“Atom, for god’s sake, stop it!” Hannah interrupts.
“Stop? Stop what?”
“Why do you do this to people?” Hannah says, causing Lylitte to laugh, and the older woman to look at Hannah curiously.
“What he was going to eventually say is that we’re teaching the stem cells to sing their songs louder so that they harmonize and teach their melody to the host, once it’s introduced,” Billy explains.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

“Clarity of purpose often comes from wandering through mistakes”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

“Atom, all life and reality as we know it is created by consciousness… your dream made it probable that we would find life,”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

“I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
― R.D. Ronald

“I saw a meme the other day with a picture of Marilyn Manson and Robin Williams. It said about the former, this isn’t the face of depression, and about the latter, this is. This really struck a chord and it’s been on my mind since then. As someone who has continuously dipped in and out of chronic depression and anxiety for close to three decades now, and I’ve never previously spoken about the subject, I finally thought it was time I did.
These days it’s trendy for people to think they’re cool and understanding about mental illness, posting memes and such to indicate so. But the reality is far different to that. It seems most people think if they publicly display such understanding then perhaps a friend will come to them, open up, and calmly discuss their problems. This will not happen. For someone in that seemingly hopeless void of depression and anxiety the last thing they are likely to do is acknowledge it, let alone talk about it. Even if broached by a friend they will probably deny there is a problem and feel even more distanced from the rest of the world.
So nobody can do anything to help, right? No. If right now you suspect one of your friends is suffering like this then you’re probably right. If right now you think that none of your friends are suffering like this then you’re probably wrong. By all means make your public affirmations of understanding, but at least take on board that an attempt to connect on this subject by someone you care about could well be cryptic and indirect.
When we hear of celebrities who suffered and finally took their own lives the message tends to be that so many close friends had no idea. This is woeful, but it’s also great, right? Because by not knowing there was a problem there is no burden of responsibility on anyone else. This is another huge misconception, that by acknowledging an indirect attempt to connect on such a complex issue that somehow you are accepting responsibility to fix it. This is not the case. You don’t have to find a solution. Maybe just listen. Many times over the years I’ve seen people recoil when they suspect that perhaps that is the direct a conversation is about to turn, and they desperately scramble for anything that can immediately change the subject. By acknowledging you’ve heard and understood doesn’t mean you are picking up their burden and carrying it for them.
Anyway, I’ve said my piece. And please don’t think this is me reaching out for help. If this was my current mindset the last thing I’d ever do is write something like this, let alone share it.”
― R.D. Ronald

“We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“I have often reflected that people who say “times have changed” usually live as though they had not.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

“The belief that time heals most traumas is, I fear, not to be relied upon.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

“But though we can reconstruct history, we can’t always imagine the sentiments of our ancestors when they seem so intolerant compared to our own.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich

“His shyness was quickly mistaken for arrogant aloofness, and his schoolmates began to shun him which simply added to his shyness.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

“Being in love is so often depicted as a blissful condition in the comforting pages of fiction. It was not so for me.”
― Stanislas M Yassukovich, Summertime and Short Stories

“He didn’t need dinner slop to feed his body. He couldn’t recall ever being so filled up.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“ou look much better without those vampy spikes on your feet.” “Proper?” “Shorter.”
― Nancy Mangano, Deadly Decisions

“So far Ramona hadn’t fixed a thing, other than her hunger to feel like a real woman.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Once you start liking someone, the truth is harder to see.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV-which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite-the people who go into the Meatverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they paid attention to it, might have been the most frightening thing they had seen all day.”
― Neal Stephenson, Reamde