You should have refused the sword. If you had done so, it would have been given to you, because you would have shown that your heart was pure. But just as I feared, at the supreme moment you stumbled and fell. Because of your avidity, you
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“One night around 7:30 the phone rang. Now remember, Betty had been in a comatose state for two weeks . . . but here she was on the other end of the line as rational and cheery as she’d been as a healthy young woman. “Hi, Ed, how are you?” And I said, “Who is this?” And she said, “It’s Betty. Betty Chap-man?” Lorraine: “I picked up the other phone when I heard Ed say this because I was shocked. I’d seen Betty only a day ago and she was deep in a coma. Very deep. This couldn’t possibly be her on the phone—and yet it was. She said, ‘I must have been sleeping for the last couple of weeks and now I’m just waking up.”
― Graveyard
― Graveyard
“man’s emotional tensions might constitute an electromagnetic field similar to a radiation field in the atmosphere.”
― Graveyard
― Graveyard
“Gottmann—this was at the turn of the century— pointed to the young English girl who predicted the exact day World War I would begin—six years before it began. “In effect, then, [Edna Naylor] was a human banshee,” Gottmann wrote, “warning the entire world of impending catastrophe. Alas, nobody paid her the least attention.”
― Graveyard
― Graveyard
“She is the daughter of bestselling sci-fi author Steve Perry”
― The Umbrella Conspiracy
― The Umbrella Conspiracy
“Only fools accept the obvious and go no further; use your brain, Jilly.”
― The Umbrella Conspiracy
― The Umbrella Conspiracy
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