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She decided to keep this letter because of the strange way it was written.
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What must the ancient world have been like, she wondered, with all these strange things moving around in it? Was it wonderful or terrible?
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Doon went up close to the wall of the hotel and examined the words scratched there. He pictured the people who had done it, clutching their burnt chunks of wood, writing with big, angry strokes in the dark of the night. Yes, Tick was right. Hatred seethed in those jagged letters. He felt almost as if their strokes had scraped open his skin.
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When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.
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What are those?
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Crystal didn't like delays. She was a fast-moving, efficient person, and when her way was blocked, she became very tense and spoke with her lips in two hard lines.
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Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is.
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Church of the Fiery Vision.
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What you get is what you get. What you DO with what you get, though...that's more the point, wouldn't you say" -Doon's Father"
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Father: And when anger is the boss, you get- Doon: Unintended consequences.
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Finally, Trogg pointed to the hourglass, which was draining its last grains of sand into its bottom half. "Bedtime!" he cried. Minny awoke with a start, and everyone got up and shuffled off to the apartment."
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You turned a crazy old guy into an enemy in less than two minutes. YOU did it. You've done it over and over, I've seen you: you approach people like an enemy and bam!, they turn into one, whether they were to begin with or now" -Maddy"
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like a pack of wolves across the planet, and people were afraid for the survival of the human race.
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Two of the guards looked up at us and lost their balance and fell into the water. They grabbed hold of the loaded boats, which made the boats tip and dump their load into the river. The other guards and Looper knelt down and tried to reach them, but they were pulled in, too. In the midst of all this, the mayor jumped onto the one boat that was still upright, but as soon as he hit it, it turned over and he plunged into the river.
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The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is.
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Every time she thought about him, she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.
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They wore old-fashioned outfits and had sour looks on their faces, as if they were annoyed with the photographer for making them sit still so long.
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There was only one thing he
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She heard a scrape, and then a rustling sound.
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The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is." Doon walked on silently. Inwardly, he groaned. He knew what his father was going to say, and he didn't feel like hearing it. "And when anger is the boss, you get--" "I know," said Doon. "Unintended consequences." "That's right. Like hitting your father in the ear with a shoe heel." "I didn't mean to." "That's exactly my point."
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Somehow she had done wrong by trying to do right.
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Lina didn't really feel cold but she did feel sad, which was in a way the same.
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