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Nov 05, 2017 05:43PM
"It's too damn cold of a day to be out on a hunt." ~ Warcross
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"'THERE IT IS,'" my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we've been nearing for weeks, the one that's growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larger than that, growing from a dot to a disc, shining back the light from its sun, until you can see the blue of its oceans, the green of its forests, the white of its polar caps, a circle of colour against the black beyond." ~ The New World
"'Do you have everything?' Jamie asked, biting her nails as she stood in the foyer of my parents' house." ~ The Air He Breathes
"Angelo must have slept in the damp grass beside the road for a while, but the evening was cold and his cassock was thin, and he awoke, shivering." ~ From Sand and Ash
"Years before Trip Wiley could be seen on movie screens all over the world, he could be seen sitting in the desk behind me in my high school English class." ~ Remember When
The dream first made an appearance my second week at Thurmond, and it came to visit at least twice a month. - Never Fade
"Capt. T.K. Reaper shoveled cold fake mashed potatoes into his mouth like it was his last meal." ~ Mayhem's Warrior
"I never thought I'd see a day where my world was more consumed by one person than by serving my country." ~ Angels & Whiskey
"I placed my thumb and forefinger on the icy flesh, spreading it taut above the breastbone as Uncle had showed me." ~ Stalking Jack the Ripper
" 'It's your heart,' says the gastroenterologist after performing and endoscopy on me." ~ Open Heart
Papa says there used to be cities without Home Guard, but now that is no longer possible. - Broken Moon
"LAST NIGHT I DREAMED about mercury--huge, shining globules of quicksilver rising and falling." ~ Gratitude
"When the door to my cell clicked open, the first thought that flitted through my doped-up brain was that Liz had changed her mind and come back." - The Awakening
"Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she'd been told that she would kill her true love." - The Raven Boys
"He was a man I never met / yet to him I am forever in debt" ~ Neon Aliens Ate My Homework and Other Poems - Audio
"It was a breezy fall morning when I entered the mirrored glass skyscraper in midtown Manhattan, leaving the cacophony of blaring horns and pedestrian chatter behind to step into cool quiet." ~ Afterburn
"It was a clear afternoon on the Lake Huron shore during the last weekend in May, so there weren't any swimmers." ~ The Lawyer Lifeguard
"Bree Stone was thirty minutes into her morning exercise and breathing hard as she ran east along a path in the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC." ~ Detective Cross
"The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I can know or tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain." ~ It
"The boy did't realize what he'd done at first, because the train was where the last train should have been--a little two-car diesel at the end of the platform at Parkside--and he'd run flat out to catch it." ~ The Wrong Train
"Did you get yours yet?" my best friend, Morgan Levine, asked, waving the gaudiest invitation I'd ever seen. My New Crush Gave to Me
"Well, well, well, Harry Mills mused as he glanced around the campus of Southshore Community College." ~ Mr. Miracle
The morning sun crawls over the palace wall when I enter the training yard for recruit selection. - The King's Guard
“I’ve always found hitting a man from behind to be the best way to go about things.” Prince of fools by Mark Lawrence
"A mother's instinct to protect her child--the most powerful force on the planet." ~ 113 Minutes: A Story in Real Time
" 'BUT MR. COOKIE has never spent the night away from home,' the woman in the waiting room wailed." The Girl of His Dreams: Playing by the Greek's Rules
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