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    Don Hynes
    “Down the narrow trail
    to the sound of sea lions
    barking their belonging,
    we wandered into their world,
    the one we thought was ours.”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation
    tags: choice, happiness, inspiring, kindness, motivating, p
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    Don Hynes
    “Something dark and unseen
    breaks into awareness,
    bursting like a mushroom
    with the full throat of desire.
     ”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation
    tags: choice, happiness, inspiring, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivating, optimism, positive, positive-attitude
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    Don Hynes
    “I never will be sober
while desire guides me,
lured by darkness
to distant light,
    where sky gods celebrate
those who love night glory,
who dare once more
to sing among the stars.”
    ― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation
    tags: cosmic-imagery, desire, longing, meditative-writing, mystic-poetry, night-thoughts, poetry, starlight, wild-spirit
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    “The guard looked down at the scarlet bloodstains blooming on his chest. He appeared to think of something that he needed to say, but as his lips began to form the words, his knees gave up the strain of supporting his ruined bulk. He collapsed to the floor, his throat issuing a final sound like a bubbling casserole.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: death-rattle, dying
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    “We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: acid, love-gone-wrong, love-hurts, poison, reflection
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    “Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily staining her pale flesh a horrific red.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: blood, descriptive-prose, horror
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    “Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.

    'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.

    Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: murder, prose, visual-moments
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    “I'm the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.”
    ― R.D. Ronald
    tags: admire, bitch, confidence, critic, inspirational, life, writing
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    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: philosophical-musings, reflection
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    “Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: defiant, one-of-them
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: books, reading
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    George Orwell
    “Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
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    George Orwell
    “Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution”
    ― George Orwell, An Age Like This: 1920-1940
    tags: humor
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    George Orwell
    “...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: war
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    Leif Enger
    “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”
    ― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
    tags: october
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    Leif Enger
    “You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.”
    ― Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
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    Leif Enger
    “It made me think of Penelope waiting for Odysseus—Penelope at her loom, not missing a trick, lumpen suitors everywhere.”
    ― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander
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    Robyn Mundell
    “Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
    ― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker
    tags: brain, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientists
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    Robyn Mundell
    “Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
    ― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker
    tags: be-patient, brain, middle-grade, personality-trait, quality, science, science-fiction, scientist
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    Robyn Mundell
    “Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
    ― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker
    tags: brain, explore, middle-grade, science, science-fiction, scientist, the-great-unknown, universe
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    Robyn Mundell
    “No need to be afraid. I’m just a Holon.”
    “Huh?”
    “A Holon. What are you?”
    “You mean who am I?” I correct him.
    “No, what are you?”
    “I’m not a what. I’m a who.”
    “How can you be a who if you’re not a what?”
    “What?”
    ― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker
    tags: alien, brain, middle-grade, science, what, what-are-you, who, who-are-you
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    Gillian Flynn
    “It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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    Gillian Flynn
    “A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”
    ― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
    tags: dark
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    Clement Clarke Moore
    “Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!”
    ― Clement C. Moore, Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas
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    Clement Clarke Moore
    “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
    ― Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas
    tags: christmas-quotes
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    Clement Clarke Moore
    “for a Christmas present. They read it just after they had hung up their stockings before one of the big fireplaces in their house. Afterward, they learned it,”
    ― Clement C. Moore, The Night Before Christmas
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    Clement Clarke Moore
    “there arose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters”
    ― Clement C. Moore, The Night Before Christmas: The Classic Account of the Visit from St. Nicholas
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