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“Evil was easier to deal with when it was an ugly, inhuman creature than when it took the shape of a friend.”
― Christie Golden, Vampire of the Mists

“am led inescapably to the belief that the level to which one can empathetically look past the personal to the pains and losses of the wider”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“intrepid outward exploration of the landscape and a revealing inward journey of the self. These are the things that keep me going, the lust for exploration and the quest to better comprehend who I am and what I’m made of.”
― Dean Karnazes, A Runner’s High: My Life in Motion

“Each one was naked, and bloated around the torso and belly with gaseous buboes and grotesque sores that wept thick pus. Heads were shrunken balls of flaking skin over rictus-grinning skulls. All of them had trains of buzzing insects following behind them, tiny bottle-green flies that dived in and out of the invaders’ open wounds.”
― James Swallow, The Flight of the Eisenstein