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    “Behind her, cotton sheets lay rumpled atop an unmade bed—the remains of an empty white canvas upon which she had intended to paint the landscape of home. And love. And family.
    But no such masterpiece exists”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: fiction, historical-fiction, romance, tion
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  • #2
    “You left your soul out of its box
    Accessible to the rain”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: beauty, box-rain, historic-fiction, sadness, soul
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    “Those bright lilies don’t care where they grow,” the old man said. “They seem to especially like soggy ditches. A flower like that can draw beauty out of any old, rotten place. A gutter flower makes its gutter a better place just by being there.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: historic-fiction, philosophy-of-life, the-gutter
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    “There is enough steam still in the pipes to feed its piston, but it has no real power. The wheel is nothing more than a spinning flower decorating a grave.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: fiction, historic-fiction, ships, steampunk, trains
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  • #5
    “Sometimes you don’t know until a ship hits trouble just how good it is.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
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    “She asks the yard a question it can never answer. 'What is it about me that I can’t find my proper place on this earth?”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: finiding, my-place, place-in-the-world
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    “Dark sometimes is described as the absence of light. But light, conversely, is not just the absence of dark. Light is something far different. Light is energy. Darkness is but a void.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: absence, dark, darkness, energy, light
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    “Wind against the goggles. Cool night air against her cheeks. She roars on into the night, hissing and clanking and smoking. She heads toward the glow of the big city, with sparks trailing behind her like dying moths.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: fire, motion, sparks, steam, steampunk, trains, wind
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    “Dawn in the city arrives in slumber and a quiet tolerance, which lingers until an urban urgency takes delivery of the day.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: city, cityscpe, dawn, morning, slumber, urban
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    “The cobblestones are a bad match for the wagon, making it feel like she’s sitting atop her own personal earthquake.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: 1800s, earthquake, historical-fiction, shaking, traveling, wagon, wagon-wheels
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    “There's no spring in his step. No smile on his face. There's just a grim determination, grown strong over the years due to the weight of its burden.”
    ― Shawn P. McCarthy
    tags: burden-of-life, determinism, fatalism, historic-fiction
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  • #12
    “In homes like these, the big windows remind the world that the residence, and its people, are successful. The windows reach out. They float. They are a puffed-out chest, assuring the greatness of the place and its family is thrust forward for all to see.”
    ― Shawn P. McCrthy
    tags: bay-window, victorian, victorian-architecture, windows
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