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But if you don’t know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there.
you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.
Persons seeking to find scholarship herein will be sued; persons motivated to discover meaning will be exiled; persons seeking to find an allegory will be summarily ordained.
At the end of a lifetime’s worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us?
It had been so long since we were a family that I had almost forgotten the joy that came with having one. All the small and large moments, many that I had taken for granted while they were occuring, no doubt bolstered by the certainty that there would be many more. Yet such endearing and memorable engagements in life are promised to no one. They come and go and one has to be aware that there is no assurance they will ever come again. It made me tremble to think what I had lost.
Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory
john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that
will paint in pleasing colors.” “How do you know which colors to use?” I asked. “There are instructions for each item on your workstation.
We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn’t it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?
looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.
I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn’t care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.
Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.
Even though we weren't old, we were old with all we carried inside.
Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off
It was blood. Blood that looked as if it had just been spilled. As I watched, it started pouring down the cavern’s walls.
You are a danger to her and all of Wormwood, Vega, do you not understand that?
At the end of a lifetime’s worth of lights and nights, it seemed that family was really the only important thing there was. And yet how many of us truly appreciated that significance before our last breath left us? We lost family all the time, and we mourned them and buried them and remembered them. Wouldn’t it be better to celebrate family while they are alive to a greater degree than when they are no longer with us?
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