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“..the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.”
“Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the w...”
“You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.”
“Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will...”
“Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.”
“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”
“I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home and my sanity depends on it.”
“People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.”
“I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.”
“If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.”
“From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a mir...”
“Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you think you can bear to give it," he instructed before I began to write, "because you won't find the truth of ...”
“Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a...”
