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    “But when people talk about it they call it The Zombie Room.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
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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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    “He turned and saw Becky, crying in the doorway of her house. What was he doing here? Turning back he saw flashing blue lights at the end of the road, and realised the ringing in his ears was the sound of approaching sirens.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: impending-doom, reality-check, realization
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    “Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
    tags: visual-moments
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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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    Don Hynes
    “Snow laden trees,
    streets washed clean,
    the timeless hymnal
    open to the sky
    in the deep throated
    song of winter.”
    ― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation
    tags: chances, change, compassion, completion, confidence, destiny, dig-deep, love-yourself, power, pride
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    Don Hynes
    “Before a wall

    of ancient stone,
    
I place prayers

    in cracks of silence.”
    ― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation
    tags: ancient-stone, contemplative-writing, poetry, prayer, quiet-faith, sacred-spaces, silence, spiritual-reflection
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    Don Hynes
    “Signal the stars if you hear me,
and lift your soul in silence steeped,
that dark night beauty find you.”
    ― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation
    tags: contemplative, lyrical-prayer, mystic-lines, night-beauty, poetry, soul-calling, spiritual-silence, stars-and-darkness
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    Don Hynes
    “Dropping like rain,
I fall into a new year
of starless nights,
wet gray dawns.”
    ― Don Hynes, Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation
    tags: dawnthoughts, literarypoetry, melancholic, newbeginnings, poetry, reflectivewriting, souljourney, wintermood
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    Steven D. Levitt
    “Don’t listen to what people say; watch what they do.”
    ― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak
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    Steven D. Levitt
    “Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
    ― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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    Steven D. Levitt
    “la economía es una ciencia que cuenta con herramientas excelentes para la obtención de respuestas, pero que sufre una seria escasez de preguntas interesantes.”
    ― Steven Levitt Stephen Dubner
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    Steven D. Levitt
    “aficionados”
    ― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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    Steven D. Levitt
    “The plural of anecdote is not data.”
    ― Steven D. Levitt, Think Like a Freak
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    Rick Riordan
    “Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
    "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
    "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
    tags: humor, true-love
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    Rick Riordan
    “I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue plastic hairbrush.”
    ― Rick Riordan
    tags: percy-jackson, rachel-elizabeth-dare
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    Rick Riordan
    “Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
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    Rick Riordan
    “Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
    A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."
    Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.”
    ― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse
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    Rick Riordan
    “I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”
    ― Rick Riordan
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    Sebastian Faulks
    “I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
    ― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
    tags: reflection, war, wwi
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    Sebastian Faulks
    “There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.”
    ― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
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    Sebastian Faulks
    “That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.”
    ― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
    tags: happiness
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    Sebastian Faulks
    “Time makes us pointless.”
    ― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
    tags: pointless, time
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  • #24
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: food, happiness
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
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    E.B. White
    “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: friend, friendship, writers
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    E.B. White
    “I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
    ― E. B. White, Letters of E. B. White: An Intimate Biography in His Own Words Revealing a Life in Letters, Love, and Twentieth-Century America
    tags: nature
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    E.B. White
    “A SPIDER’S web is stronger than it looks. Although it is made of thin, delicate strands, the web is not easily broken. However, a web gets torn every day by the insects that kick around in it, and a spider must rebuild it when it gets full of holes.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
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    E.B. White
    “A little maple tree in the swamp heard the cricket song and turned bright red with anxiety.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
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