The Leftovers
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An indiscriminate Rapture was no Rapture at all.
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Matthew Piette
11/16/2011 mjp
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the awareness of a road not taken.
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the one thing she couldn’t afford to do was nap, not if she didn’t want to find herself wide-awake in the dark at three in the morning, with nothing but the inside of her own head to keep her company.
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If people had good news, you didn’t have to drag it out of them.
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most people seemed nice enough when they weren’t allowed to talk—and
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She nodded the way you do when you’re not actually listening to the other person and are just waiting for them to go away.
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the End Times
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God the Father, the jealous Old Testament deity who demanded blind obedience and tested the loyalty of his followers in cruelly inventive ways.
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Her new self had nothing to do but smoke and wait, and she wasn’t all that particular about where she did it. The hallway outside the Director’s office was as good a place as any.
Matthew Piette
1/11/12 mjp