Fred Barnes

“Each and every one of these people was somebody’s adored offspring, a new life they brought into creation. We may despise the things they did, but each was something unique, that has never existed before and never will again. We honor that, celebrating the potential that each realized during their time, and mourning the potential that each did not.”
― J.N. Chaney, Hand of Fate

“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

“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

“You accept a man shitting on you,” she used to say, “he’ll make himself at home. There’s no three strikes. You use me, take me for granted, you prove you don’t deserve to be in my life.”
― Kennedy Ryan, This Could Be Us