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Sucked me right in....

"I feared that I would once again be forced to stand and watch harm come to those I loved. I hated my fear most of all."

"Her mother used to say that hope was nothing but a heartache that hadn't happened yet. But Angela was still addicted to it. She had never learned how to give it up."

Meg Gardiner's story (Bright Light City) was GREAT!! Very tense and quite creepy. Some of her best writing to date...

Crackin' from the jump and has yet to let up 👏

"It didn't matter that it wasn't real. It only mattered that it was true."

"Her cousin Taybee anxiously gripped together her hands, silently conveying her panicked thoughts."

"Can their be anything more counterintuitive than voluntarily subjecting yourself to dentistry?"

Becoming a touch tedious...

"I'm angry at Susan-now for ruining my relationship with the Susie I thought she was."

"One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."


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"I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty."

"He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment."

"And, certainly, to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation."

"It was the passions about whose orgin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us."

"He was like one of those gracious figures in a pageant or a play, whose joys seem to be remote from one, but whose sorrows stir one's sense of beauty, and whose wounds are like red roses."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"There was something fascinating in this son of Love and Death."

"Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."

"Was there anything so real as words?"

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"His smile made me wonder how a tree would show joy."

"There were a thousand questions to ask and no reason to ask them."

"The girl's smile revealed that she was missing one upper front tooth, making her just a little more perfect."

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Here we go again....:)

"When I awoke the next morning, just about sunrise, Lula was gone. She'd only taken two of the seven hundred-dollar bills from my wallet so I knew she liked me.
Atlanta is my kind of town"


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"Truth is often deemed unsavory."

"It felt like I was completing a quote that had never been uttered."

"That's the bread and butter of a private detective's life, deep debt that comes out of shadow and pain."

His casual sprinkling of the N- bomb is incredibly off-putting...