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Everyone plays for someone, and Kris didn't play for the big dogs like Sabbath and Zep, she didn't play for the ones who made it, for the wizards who figured out how to turn their music into cars and cash and mansions and an endless party where no one ever gets old. She played for the losers. She played for the bands who never met their rainmaker, the musicians who drank too much and made all the wrong decisions. The singers who got shipped..
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Kris had been alive long enough to know it was dangerous when men accused you of being better than them.
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Of course, every mother thinks her baby is perfect, but at some point, as her home fills with dead bodies, she has to face facts and admit that the fruit of her womb is a face-eating beast spawned from the deepest recesses of hell.
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Grady Hendrix |
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She didn't expect life to be fair, but did it have to be so relentless?
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Grady Hendrix |
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Here was the other option: the tranquilizing chair. It was always waiting for her. It always wanted her back. It always wanted her to quit again, to sit down and never get back up. In the end, Amy thought, everything always comes down to those two choices: stay down or stand up.
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Abby and Gretchen still kept up, but it was phone calls and letters, then postcards and voicemail, and finally emails and Facebook likes. There was no falling-out, no great tragedy, just a hundred thousand trivial moments they didn't share, each one an inch of distance between them, and eventually those inches added up to miles.
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Grady Hendrix |
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She had nothing. Except her music.
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Grady Hendrix |
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The walls of her stall were covered with graffiti. If it had been funny ("Pull here for MFA Degree" right below the toilet paper dispenser) she would've stayed longer, but it was mostly weird random names and dates."
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All over Russia, bears were depressed. The Yeti were moving west. This was due to global warming, but the bears hadn't gone to university so they didn't understand the bigger picture. All they knew was that one day bears were the best animals, and the next these strange creatures were punching them in the face and eating all their salmon and berries.
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Brother Lemon and Abby looked at each other, eyes gleaming in the shadows, and then he stood up. Rummaging in one of his duffle bags, he pulled out an athletic cup and slid it down the front of his pants. He caught Abby staring. "First place they go for," he explained. He adjusted himself and picked up a well worn bible."
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Some of you seniors may have seen this at parties," said Coach Greene, standing at the podium in front of the upper school assembly, holding a green glass bottle. "The manufacturer calls it 'Bartles and Jaymes wine cooler,' but the Charleston County Police Department calls it 'rape juice."
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It was the voice of a preacher, a voice of the past, a voice for cathedrals, a voice from a time before microphones. It was a voice that denounced witches and flogged sinners. It was a voice that sang Latin while women burned at the stake and men were crushed beneath stones.
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We're getting out of here," she said. "The store will try to stop us. It'll disorient you, get inside your head, try to confuse you and control you. But if you stay focused, you can block it out. You have to fight, do you understand?"
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For her, the world was divided into two kinds of jobs: those where you had to stand up, and those where you could sit down. If you were standing up, you were paid hourly. If you were sitting down, you were salaried.
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I can pick a fight in an empty fucking elevator. 'No one left to fight'. Fuck you
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Grady Hendrix |
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If Kris could play enough of these, in the right order, without stopping, she could block out everything: the dirty snow that never melted, closets full of secondhand clothes, overheated classrooms at Independence High, mind-numbing lectures about the Continental Congress and ladylike behavior and the dangers of of running with the wrong crowd and what x equals and how to find for y and what the third person plural for cantar is and what Ho..
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Work gives you a goal. It lets you build something that lives on after you're gone. Work has a purpose beyond making money.
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All great works must begin with a sacrifice.
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Wasting food is no joke!" he'd shout. "That's how Karen Carpenter died!" --
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It's April 1988 and the world belongs to them.
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That was her nature. Fail and quit. If you cut her open, it was fail and quit right down to her bones.
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friend" is a word whose sharp corners have been worn smooth by overuse."
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Johnstone piles incident on incident, trope on trope, and if something isn't working he keeps on piling. When time itself needs to be brought to a screeching halt, Jay Clute just pulls out his gun and shoots a clock. Because clocks make time, right? In William W. Johnstone's world, why not?
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Horror is a woman's genre, and it has been all the way back to the oldest horror novel still widely read today: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, daughter of pioneering feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. Ann Radcliffe's gothic novels (The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Italian) made her the highest-paid writer of the late eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Charlotte Riddell were book-writing machines, turning..
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For toil is the great grinding stone to make keen the blade of your spirit. Toil is the ladder by which your putrid flesh ascends into health.
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There's nothing waiting inside but retail slavery, endless exploitation, and personal subjugation to the whims of our corporate overlords." If"
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In Brain Watch (1985), superpsychic powers are the result of splitting a doctor's noggin into a quadruple brain, unlocking his ability to project illusions, become superstrong, and control the pigment in his skin to ensure a really great tan.
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Abby was beginning to feel like everything was too much. She was beginning to feel like nothing she did made any difference.
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What danger signs should patients watch for when selecting a skeleton doctor? Well, if the doctor refers to patients as "poor unlucky bastards," be careful. Also, doctors who turn abandoned mental institutions into their own private research facilities are probably up to no good. Especially when the entrance to said clinic is "an underground passageway behind the morgue." Most important, just remember that whenever a skeleton does science, ..
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She promised herself that she was not going to cry. They could take her job, but they would not take her dignity.
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The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she'd be among the stars, they made movies tricking her into thinking she could achieve heroic things.
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dream
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Amy would honor the first commandment of keeping her job: Do not look like an idiot in front of anyone who can fire you.
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There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing it's there.
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