The Marrow Thieves (Marrow Thieves #1)
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if you listened, really put conscious action into listening, things began to sing.
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A moose.
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I knew he knew I was there.
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hiding from memories of a family and days without pursuit.
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I was empty-handed, but something in my chest was burning a little brighter. I was okay with my decision, but not okay with the consequences.
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In a way, I got that moose. He visited me in my dreams.
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I knew he knew I was there.
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a building buried deep in the trees.
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“Do you think circumstances make people turn bad? Or that people make circumstances bad to begin with?”
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Camus
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a plague of madness.
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“We are actually both motivated by the same thing: survival.”
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James Bay
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corporate-sponsored vacancy.
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“No one is more important than anyone else, French.”
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Haha - earlier simile extended.
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We walked slowly, out of habit, out of fear, but also, now, out of reverence. This space felt untouched.
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so much was still supposed to happen. The intent and plans hadn’t had time to vacate.
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floor-length windows on either side of a stone-mantled fireplace.
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this space that was not forest or dilapidated barn.
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After so much time in the wide-open, I was pleased to be contained.
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watched this new place illuminate.
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the front her sweater
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Editor!
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She would have spent the longest in a real bedroom before the hunt began, way more than any of us.
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the rogarou
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An old-timey story!
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Haha - he’s not supposed to listen to the children’s story? Question
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that man was a giant amongst Christians.
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And mother and grand-mère and Catholic are all erased and I am just a woman.
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Everything in his gut sang “move, move, move.” And Miig was a man who lived by his gut.
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It’s nice that Chi-boy doesn’t make moves on Rose.
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Good man. All the kids are pretty nice to each other, No Lord of the Flies for these guys!
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some kind of million-dollar view.
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Here we had beds and warmth and walls. It was luxurious.
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