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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the…
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally…
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited…
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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary…
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and…
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we…
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I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was…
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Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights…
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Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana.
— Rick Yancey
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I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain…
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