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“It’s not just the big moments that count, it’s all of the small actions that feed our heart and soul on a daily basis.”
― Crossroads and the Dominion of Four
― Crossroads and the Dominion of Four

“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.”
― Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence
Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
― Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

“Lovers who kill each other will blame it on the wind.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander

“Marco had examined every inch of Guayanés Beach, where coconut palms that once grew along the shore in majestic rows lay crisscrossed in the sand like scattered pencils.”
― A Delicate Marriage
― A Delicate Marriage

“The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something.
What can she become? I asked.
Why, she said, the mother of his children.
But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”
― The Color Purple
What can she become? I asked.
Why, she said, the mother of his children.
But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.”
― The Color Purple
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