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“Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“Ferret took out a folded scrap of paper and passed it to him.
'My guy Ben doesn't know where the other club is, but the girls are being shipped in from here, a rehab centre in Newtonville.'
'What's this other place called?' Tazeem asked as he slipped the scrap of paper into his pocket.
'The place is just known as The Club. But the behind-the-scenes bit that only the real big spenders get to see, there's no official name, 'cause officially it doesn't exist, that's know as The Zombie Room.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“The thin line between love and hate is self-deception.”
― J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

“A YEAR after the bomb was dropped, Miss Sasaki was a cripple; Mrs. Nakamura was destitute; Father Kleinsorge was back in the hospital; Dr. Sasaki was not capable of the work he once could do; Dr. Fujii had lost the thirty-room hospital it took him many years to acquire, and had no prospects of rebuilding it; Mr. Tanimoto’s church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality. The lives of these six people, who were among the luckiest in Hiroshima, would never be the same.”
― John Hersey, Hiroshima

“Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“How to Say ‘Fetch!’” by Vicki Hearne and”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled. ”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Father Wolf ran out a few paces and heard Shere Khan”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book