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" Why don't you go on home scout? " To kill a mockingbird , Harper Lee
I was younger then, I wasn't afraid of anything, I didn't think about dying for a second. I thought I was invincible. Then I met her. Before me, my world shattered. I wanted to live, I started to think like that; for the first time I was afraid of death. I had never felt like that before.

avorae

His birth on earth.
Insights into the scriptures Volume 2
Life is a hard game but the rewards are sweet if you know where to look.

King Serperior

Washed aground on this outpouring of jagged rock, the hull of a thirty-foot sailboat lay on her side like a swollen whale carcass.

- "Fragment" by Warren Fahy

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Oniya

I'm happy to share my cabling secrets with you.

(Toe-up Socks for Every Body, by Wendy D. Johnson - I'm making some legwarmers for my niece.)
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Paladin101

"Maybe something will pop."

Promises in Death, J.D. Robb

Jazra

"And with your decree of no sex, I feel as if my life has no purpose."

His Ultimate Prize, Maya Blake
Ons & Offs
Absences

Boy, “If I and a slice of pizza fall in the water, which do you save?

Girl, wipes grease off her chin, “Why'd you let my pizza fall in the water?”

IzabellaJ

"The best thing about me is probably my eyes, but then I suppose my eyes would think that, as it’s them that are looking at them."

- The moaning of life.
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RainyHigh

Still, I was more frustrated than ever and my head ached with a throb that surged through my temples as I ended the day’s search, driving away toward home, once again without my family.


--Reign of Blood
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yobo

Like his uncle, Marcus was an outstanding rifleman.

John Gilbert - "A Dozen D-Days: Canada's Invasion of Normandy, the Fight for Caen".

sirsGoldenlittleprincess

'How long will the causeway remain passable?'

(The Woman in Black - Susan Hill)

Valerian

Each was associated with a discrete part of the brain, which Gall called organs, and a detectable bump on the skull.

~Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine, by Erika Janik
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

Snapespersephone

Nay, 'tis too true;therefore he shall be king
William Shakespeare; the complete works (The second part of King Henry the sixth)
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There is something wrong in life when my most dominate side is my muse, and she doesn't listen to me. She skips around doing her own thing and ignoring me.

Mnemaxa

It is not that those of Tao never enter into conflict.

Deng Ming-Da, Everyday Tao

The Well of my Dreams is Poisoned; I draw off the Poison, which becomes the Ink of my Authorship, the Paint upon my Brush.

JarsofPickles

Would that I could step away from this world, before the darkness consumes me.
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Crimzon Dragon

Do not reverse the charger connections described in the following steps or the charging system of the motorcycle could be damaged.

2010 Harley-Davidson Touring Model Service Manual  :-)

Blythe

"Where you going?" Molly said.

~"High Profile" by Robert Parker

Vill

Said the Angel, "He is risen!"

Dear God - Wonderful Ways To Talk To Him.


I'd like to point out that I am an atheist and that this is not my book.  ;)

Lilias

'By that he meant a total absence of female visibility.'

~Jan Goodwin, Price of Honour
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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AmberStarfire

I'm out and about and don't have any books within reach. Generally I keep a few books on my phone and the only one I can think of right now is Machiavelli's The Prince. Excellent for game quotes...


Valerian

It was not an isolated reading.

The Year without Summer: 1816, by William and Nicholas Klingaman
"To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his due."
~ Ulpian, c. 530 CE

Jazra

Scott grudgingly accepted her decision to stop writing, but remained determined to marry her.

Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, A Marriage: Sometimes Madness is Wisdom by Kendall Taylor.
Ons & Offs
Absences

Boy, “If I and a slice of pizza fall in the water, which do you save?

Girl, wipes grease off her chin, “Why'd you let my pizza fall in the water?”

Tesaka Fyrewolf

x . n = 0 is the hyperplane that is normal to n and passes through the origin.

The Muse

"Then why aren't there any tool marks from the skinning?"

Obsidian Butterfly Laurell K Hamilton

Observing Trifles

"No more - no more - no more -"

- To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe
|| the hunt ||

my, my, those eyes like fire;
i'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre.
come now, bite through these wires;
i'm a waking hell and the gods grow tired.

Lilias

'But these only served to advance the inevitable; for while still relatively young, the youth exhausted for himself the fields of fleshly joy and became ripe for the other experience.'

~Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~Wendell Berry

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