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“You get irritated when I say I'm not angry and you get irritated when I say I am angry. I can't win."
"Because you just saying whatever you think will shut me up," he accused me.
"Aye, but it's not working."
"Argh!" was his response, and he charged on down the street.”
― Moira J. Moore, The Hero Strikes Back

“Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against his chest and back. I wished I had an artist's skill, that I could make renderings of him in all his states of beauty. He would never want to look at them, or even know about them. I would just like them for myself. Maybe he would want to see them when he was much older, and beautiful in a different way.”
― Moira J. Moore, Heroes at Risk

“Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered.
"City slave," he said.
"Farm boy," I shot back.
"I've never even seen a farm."
"Don't trifle me with details.”
― Moira J. Moore

“And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.”
― Rose Tremain, Music & Silence

“There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existance is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, witch is free.”
― Rose Tremain, Sacred Country

“You're sending my mind to unwelcome places, Taro.
Good. It can keep mine company.”
― Moira J. Moore, Heroes Return

“I couldn't be sure, and I certainly wasn't going to admit it to anyone, but I suspect I was the cause of the blizzard that hit us that night.”
― Moira J Moore

“You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?”
― Moira J. Moore, Heroes at Odds

“There was alliteration happening all over the place in that sentence.”
― Moira J. Moore, The Hero Strikes Back

“I want you to understand something. War makes perpetrators of some, criminals of others, and victims of everyone. Just because a soldier is in the battle, doesn't mean that he believes in the war.”
― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree