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The Space Between
— published 2009 — 3 editions |
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Riverside Blues
— published 2005 — 3 editions |
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blindspot
— published 2002 |
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Casting Stones
— published 2004 — 2 editions |
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The Blackest Death: Volume II
by Staff of Black Death Books , Derek Gunn (Goodreads Author) , Angeline Hawkes (Goodreads Author) |
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Shadow Regions
by Cesar Puch , Gary A. Braunbeck , Stephen Roy — published 2006 |
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Darkness Rising 2005
by M.P.N. Sims , Steve Duffy (Goodreads Author) , Richard Gavin — published 2005 |
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If I would've read this book first...I never would've read Gatsby. Don't get me wrong there were moments of brilliance in this book but for the most part it was tedious. If I had to sit back and think of a story that would annoy the crap out of me...
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“Sometimes you have to know what you're willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.”
― Erik Tomblin
― Erik Tomblin
“Then there are the simple things. The way she fits against my side when we’re sitting together. How she can silence my addled thoughts with one look. The sound of my name from her lips. The way she can make a moment, any moment, a thousands times better when she is there. How the simplest pleasures in life become exciting with the promise of sharing the experience with her.”
― Erik Tomblin
― Erik Tomblin
“When your stomach turns somersaults every time you see your love interest, when you can go without eating for half a day because you can't think of anything else, and when the sound of her voice blocks out every possible distraction each time you hear it...then logic's role becomes a very minor one.”
― Erik Tomblin, The Space Between
― Erik Tomblin, The Space Between
“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell
― Joseph Campbell
“He had never wanted to know anything about the part of her intimate life that he had not shared with her. Why should he take an interest now, still less take offense at it? Anyhow, he asked himself, what is an intimate secret? Is that where we hide what's most mysterious, most singular, most original about a human being? Are her intimate secrets what make Chantal the unique being he loves? No. What people keep secret is the most common, the most ordinary, the most prevalent thing, the same thing that everybody has: the body and its needs, its maladies, its manias-constipation for instance, or menstruation. We ashamedly conceal these intimate matters not because they are so personal but on the contrary, they are so lamentably impersonal.”
― Milan Kundera
― Milan Kundera
“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
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Kim
Oct 28, 2010 02:15pm
Thanks for the friend invite, Erik! Now I'm on a mission!
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Why am I the only one that ever makes comments on your lonely profile??? I ordered Blindspot! I'm way excited.








































