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- this one reads more similar to a Ballard novel (which confusing I read before I even touched the early Bosch stuff)"
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Michael               Mann
“No attachments. Walk away in thirty seconds flat from anything and anybody if you spot the heat around the corner.”
Michael Mann, Heat 2

Pope Francis
“Thank you is a phrase that is fundamental to life, starting with family life. Together with please and sorry, it’s a key that opens the way to a well-lived life, to a life of peace.”
Pope Francis, Hope: The Autobiography

Natalie Kyriacou
“Birdwatching, at first glance, seems like a pursuit designed specifically for people who find stamp collecting too stimulating. But oh, how wrong they would be. Behind the courteous nods, the gentle lift of binoculars and the soft pitter-patter of birder footsteps on dew-dappled gum leaves lies a world of unexpected drama – a scandalous underbelly of rivalry, controversy and intrigue. Indeed, what appears to be a peaceful communion with nature masks a tempest of Shakespearean passion.”
Natalie Kyriacou, Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction

Omar El Akkad
“Alongside the ledger of atrocity, I keep another. The Palestinian doctor who would not abandon his patients, even as the bombs closed in. The Icelandic writer who raised money to get the displaced out of Gaza. The American doctors and nurses who risked their lives to go treat the wounded in the middle of a killing field. The puppet-maker who, injured and driven from his home, kept making dolls to entertain the children. The congresswoman who stood her ground in the face of censure, of constant vitriol, of her own colleagues’ indifference. The protesters, the ones who gave up their privilege, their jobs, who risked something, to speak out. The people who filmed and photographed and documented all this, even as it happened to them, even as they buried their dead.
It is not so hard to believe, even during the worst of things, that courage is the more potent contagion. That there are more invested in solidarity than annihilation. That just as it has always been possible to look away, it is always possible to stop looking away. None of this evil was ever necessary. Some carriages are gilded and others lacquered in blood, but the same engine pulls us all. We dismantle it now, build another thing entirely, or we hurtle toward the cliff, safe in the certainty that, when the time comes, we’ll learn to lay tracks on air.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Lisa Wingate
“You’ll never be at that same place again. Stop. Look. Think. Choose your path. Choose your people. Hang on to what makes you laugh”
Lisa Wingate, The Last Father-Daughter Dance

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