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    R.D. Pires
    “Now there was a sense of liberation, a feeling of finality. It's in the spinning of the wheels beneath him, the miles of road he has traveled, and the miles of road he has yet to travel. When had leaving ever seemed so difficult?”
    ― R.D. Pires, A Vast, Untethered Ocean
    tags: change, journeys, road, transformation, travel
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    R.D. Pires
    “Sometimes, we carry our troubles so plainly that everyone can see them.”
    ― R.D. Pires, A Vast, Untethered Ocean
    tags: sad, troubles
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    Noah Medlock
    “Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all.”
    ― Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
    tags: exhaustion, grief, grief-and-loss
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    Noah Medlock
    “Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly.

    Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply.

    "That part of us which cannot be destroyed.”
    ― Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
    tags: soul, soul-quotes
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    Noah Medlock
    “He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers.”
    ― Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
    tags: corpses, humorous, macabre, taxidermy
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    Noah Medlock
    “Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour.”
    ― Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
    tags: cynicism, greatness, soul
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    Noah Medlock
    “Changing times can be disquieting enough, but if our fears grow silent they become ever more monstrous.”
    ― Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter
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    Trip Galey
    “May I kiss you?” Owain’s voice was just a slip of silk in the dark.

    “I think you’d better.”
    ― Trip Galey
    tags: cute, kiss, romance
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    Trip Galey
    “Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage.”
    ― Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny
    tags: storytelling, theater
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    Trip Galey
    “Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customers.”
    ― Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny
    tags: magic, mysticism
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    Trip Galey
    “But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, reaching out to Deri across more than a millennium, an echo of shared humanity knifing into Deri’s core.”
    ― Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny
    tags: art, awe, beauty
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    Ryan D. Gebhart
    “Never knew an army that marched just for the fun of it.”
    ― Ryan D Gebhart
    tags: army, humor
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    Ryan D. Gebhart
    “Time is a funny thing, especially when you enter your heart; it’s as if it doesn’t exist there.”
    ― Ryan D Gebhart
    tags: heart, love, time
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    Julie Danvers
    “But the look in my eyes must've reminded Jimmy that, in addition to bein' a highly capable albeit underemployed private dick, I'm also an Immortal Scion of the Oldest Gods”
    ― Julie Danvers, I Want That Twink Obliterated!
    tags: humor, noir, scifi
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    Julie Danvers
    “He'd always wanted me to come in from the cold, and I wanted him to see the power in immutable darkness. We were great together until we weren't.”
    ― Julie Danvers, I Want That Twink Obliterated!
    tags: humor, noir, relationships
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    “You'd end it like this?" whispered Baran, gesturing to the clearing. But all Gwylim could see was Wrenna.

    "Why not?" said Gwylim. "I've known better heroes to die in worse ways.”
    ― Charlie Winter, I Want That Twink Obliterated!
    tags: fantasy, hero, heroes, heroism, sacrifice
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    Julie Danvers
    “People prefer my kind to stick to the shadows. What with the tentacles and all. I'm told they're unsettling.”
    ― Julie Danvers, I Want That Twink Obliterated!
    tags: humor, noir, scifi, tentacles
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    “He was also wearing just enough of a smile to be dangerous and just enough eyeliner to be a fire hazard.”
    ― John Berkeley, I Want That Twink Obliterated!
    tags: attraction, hot, quips
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    “That was the part I loved most about music. That delay. That fermata. That pause before everything changes. Before you know how it will conclude.”
    ― Shea Robinson, Dance With Me
    tags: music
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    “Maybe broken hearts don't have much of a voice.”
    ― Shea Robinson, Dance With Me
    tags: broken-heart, singing, voice
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    “i see new stars in constellations without names,
    and i see oceans made of water not yet rained.”
    ― Erin Noel Christ, crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
    tags: constellations, ocean, rain, stars
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    “you take a drag and you breathe me out,
    and like smoke i linger in the february cold”
    ― Erin Noel Christ, crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
    tags: loss, poetry, smoke, smoking
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    “he has pennies in his pocket and he is rich from a lifetime at se.”
    ― Erin Noel Christ, crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
    tags: lifetime, poetry, sea, wealth, wisdom
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    “i feel the sinking sun's glow on my skin.
    like i,
    rippling in the autumn cold,
    the water was not quite blue,
    not quite gold.

    not quite able to let go of your hold.”
    ― Erin Noel Christ, crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
    tags: autumn, glow, gold, love, poetry, sun
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    “I felt my tent move with each forceful gust, it being pulled in every direction while I sat still, somehow at peace with the chaos and working toward peace with my loneliness.”
    ― Erin Noel Christ, crabbing season: a collection of poetry and prose
    tags: loneliness, nature, peace, prose, storm
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    Philip K. Dick
    “My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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    Gume Laurel III
    “The sand blows away,
    as if it knows it doesn’t belong.”
    ― Gume Laurel III, Solar Punks
    tags: belonging, melancholy, sand
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    Gume Laurel III
    “Ernestina
    waves her
    hands while
    telling us
    stories,
    as if she’s
    sewing
    her words
    into the air.”
    ― Gume Laurel III, Solar Punks
    tags: beautiful, lyrical, poetry, storytelling
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    Gume Laurel III
    “Look into his
    brown eyes.
    They remind me of
    soil after fresh rain.
    Hungry for seeds
    to, in time,
    grow a harvest.”
    ― Gume Laurel III, Solar Punks
    tags: brown-eyes, earthen, love, lyrical, verse
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    Gume Laurel III
    “She points
    to the moon.

    Our reminder,
    that even
    in the night,
    our sun is alight.”
    ― Gume Laurel III, Solar Punks
    tags: beauty, inspirational, light, moon, sun
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