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Eyes Open, Hands Empty (Unwanted Starship, #2)

by John Walker

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Apr 20, 2026 09:52PM

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. -Og Mandino”
― DJ Cooper, Dark Days: Dystopia Series

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“Out here, she was reduced to a mere observer, a transient entity skirting the edges of infinity. The sensation of insignificance clung to her like a second skin. Her thoughts, grappling with the paradox of her significance.”
― Ron Jenkins, The Great Frontier: In the Beginning

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“Mommy says I have to brush each night before prayers, so I can talk to God with a clean mouth.”
― EE Isherwood, 1000 Miles of Bad Road 3: After the EMPs

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“Them that wield the most power are usually the same ones who are the most ’fraid of their own shadows,”
― J.N. Chaney, Fractured Consortium

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“To be hated for what she was, and not who. The idea pushed him past anger to sadness. How could someone fight that kind of hatred?”
― J.N. Chaney, Casualties of Consequence

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