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It was a beautiful storm, self-contained as storms often are, hunched far out over the vast water like a blob of blue ink, but it stalled in the middle distance and time just slipped away.


“WE HAVE IT IN OUR POWER TO BEGIN THE WORLD OVER AGAIN. . . . THE BIRTH - DAY OF A NEW WORLD IS AT HAND. —THOMAS PAINE, COMMON SENSE”
― Forge
― Forge

“for where there is no willingness to make an effort, there is usually little likelihood of success.”
― The Other Bennet Sister
― The Other Bennet Sister

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― A Rip Through Time
― A Rip Through Time

“How many times had he read the word joy without having experienced what it meant?”
― Crossroads
― Crossroads

“My husband carries many scars,” she said, “as all men who have lived a life like his must do. There are some scars that show, and there are many, many more that he keeps hidden, and when you’ve discovered all of those, then you may try to test me on how well I know my husband. But until that day comes, Captain, I have little time for games.” Her tone was calm, but even she could hear the tremor of her righteous anger running underneath the words. “My husband is a private man, as is his right, and I’ll not take his secrets and expose them for the sake of proving something that his word alone should be the proof of. I’ll not do it. He’s a better man than any I have met in all my life, and if you choose to doubt the truth of our attachment you will have to doubt it, Captain, and be done with it, as I am done with answering your questions. He has told you what we are.”
― A Desperate Fortune
― A Desperate Fortune

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