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- I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were…
- Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know…
- Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
- Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he…
- You...you lost your faith?" "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing." Lev begins to…
- Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."…
- Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.
- We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.
- Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact,…
- Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.
- That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!
- Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the…
- I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.
- History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
- Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?
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