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“Kipster is a perfectly valid word, Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. Okay, so what does it mean? Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled t...”
“What are you doing? Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flash...”
“Mandy smiled cheerfully at an overweight kid in a gold sweater and pink skirt who was chasing her little brother around along the boardwalk. When she was that age, on sunny days shed be out on the ...”
“Do you think theres somewhere else, some other place to go after this one? Mandy blurted out.You mean when you die, where will you end up? Alecto asked her. I wouldnt know back to whatever void the...”
“Ive seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly they cant kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but Ive seen humans die from smo...”
“Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, send...”
“I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost.”
“This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I dont know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and Im sort of scared to leave it all behind, everything Ive lived with, I have so man...”
“Youre innocent until proven guilty, Mandy exclaimed, unable to hide her gleeful smile. She missed the way people used to have normal conversations, used to be more caring for each other than themse...”
“With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature, Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. I didnt create them, humans created the Pollution. Che...”
“If you were me youd do the right thing, help your friends, because youre not a coward, Mandy sighed sadly. I covered up a murder because I was scared to go to jail and I did the wrong thing well, n...”
“Whyd you want to kill yourself? Didnt you feel anything, or didnt it hurt you? Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. Yes, I suppose it did, it was strange, it was sharp, thats all I can think of to d...”
“Im afraid of what the digital age will do to the world, to the things we think are important its almost like people want to believe in some illusion that theyre robots and forget altogether that th...”
“You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.”
“There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it this place, she decided, was called Smog City.”
“Ive seen a lot of stuff maybe Ive seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because Ive seen what they can do, how evil they can be Ive seen the Holocaust and Ive seen Jonestown, Ive seen the...”
“You should find something better to do with your time, Mandy told him. I spend my time shooting people, and then I take them to darkrooms and blow them up.Come again? Alecto questioned with a tone ...”
“Yeah, youre right about having entire rooms full of film and photos in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage I have a few projectors, I have piles o...”
“The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and faded jeans, looked very shocked when he saw the headline text. Sydney Tar Ponds, Is It As Danger...”
“People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people we...”
