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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But ...more

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We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usu...more

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I am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They ...more

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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

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A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

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She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to...more

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Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

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Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well s...more

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Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

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Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out ...more

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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to s...more

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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a ...more

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Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

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She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs....more