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- When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting…
- What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um,…
- We don't look at each other anymore. Not really. Not since I pulled him from that opium den. Now when I look at him, I…
- He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does…
- Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,…
- She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only…
- It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not…
- How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain…
- We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by…
- Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it…
- Gonzo narrows his eyes. 'How often do you clean that thing?' 'Every night,' the waitress answers. Her smile is strained. 'That's it? Do you know…
- Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where…
- Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall…
- Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks…
- Ahem. Dear Jesus," Taylor intoned more fervently. "We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe ---" There was a loud, gurgling groan.…
- I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I…
- Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.
- I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
- HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss…
- As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock…
- I’m from the health department. You’ve heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella’s got enough typhoid to start his own colony.
- In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences…
- She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies:…
- Jericho lay back down on his side, watching her breathe just an arm's length from him. She was not beautiful while she slept; her mouth…
- Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
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