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“The unkempt clapboard residence sported a copious amount of bare wood. Years of rain mixed with rust from metal window screens had stained the cladding at the corner of each opening, creating an illusion that the house was weeping bloody tears. Dead cottonwood trees looked on like silent mourners.”
― Kimber Silver, Bullets in the Briar

tags: book-excerpt, book-quotes, imagery, kansas, landscapes

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“Beautiful prose is a floundering fish if it doesn't have a story to swim in.”
― Kevin Ansbro

tags: literary-quotes, writing, writing-advice, writing-philosophy, writing-process, writing-quotes

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“Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
― Wayne Dwyer, Applying the Wisdom of the Ages: Eternal Truths to Transform Your Life

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“In the short, sharp span of a single heartbeat, she knew that nothing she’d ever said or done, and nothing she would ever say or do again, would carry even half the tragedy of this.”
― Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau

tags: tragedy

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