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How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?" "Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened."
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call me hopelessly paranoid, but this whole place was starting to seem creepily idyllic. Like, my bedroom was charming. Charming! What did I know about charming? I'd never called anything charming before in my life.
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Anne is quite the animal lover," Fang said to me as we followed Angel. "Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs." "Yeah," I said. "I wonder who's for dinner?"
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Can Total, um, talk?" "Uh-huh," Angel said casually, squeezing water out of her hair. I stared at her. "He talks. Total talks, and you didn't tell me?" "Well..." Angel looked for him, saw he was pretty far away, and lowered her voice. "Don't tell him I said this, but he's actually not that interesting."
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Long and short of it: Democracy gets a big thumbs-up from me.
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I heard a horrible, stomach-turning crack that vibrated up my arms. Ari and I stared at each other in shock. "You really hurt me," he gasped rawly, terrible surprise in his voice. "I wouldn't hurt you. Not like this." Then his head flopped down, and Ari went totally limp. His"
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Remember what I said at the very beginning? Now, I'm giving you a choice: You can put the book down now-- but you'll just have some of the story. Look other places for more of it. Dig even deeper, and you could become part of it. The web of answers is out there. If you can find the portal. Be careful. And don't say I didn't warn you. Max
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Arrondissement
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Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens." My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer's," --
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The thing is, the "scientists" back at the School had been playing with risky stuff, combining human and nonhuman DNA. Basically, the spliced genes started to unravel after a while, and the organisms tended to, well, self-destruct. The flock and I had seen it happen a million times: The rabbit-dog combo had been such bad news. Same with the sheep-macaque monkey splice. The mouse-cat experiment had produced a huge, hostile mouse with great b..
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Iggy's spine tightened, his face like ice. When he'd been at the School, they'd tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops.
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Excerpt from Alert copyright (c) James Patterson, 2015
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Podesta clicked on the folder containing the digital photos he'd taken of Candace Martin in a car with
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up. "Okay, Agent Bookman." "It's Books," he says. "Everyone calls me Books."
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of my jacket pocket. By this point, with my full workday and tonight's party of all parties to plan, I was more surprised when it wasn't going off. A sound, deafening even by midtown Manhattan standards, hammered into my ears as I made the corner. Was it a jackhammer? A construction pile driver? Of course not, I thought, as I spotted a black kid squatting on the sidewalk, playing drums on an empty Spackle bucket. Luckily, I also spotted my ..
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If you are lucky you will find something you love, if youre really lucky youll find someone to pay you for it
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You aren't dead," she said. "No. You aren't dead either," said Iggy irritably. "How about just 'hello'?"
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I could barely move my left arm, and it hurt like fire. I tried to stretch out my wing, only to suck my breath in hard as I found out it had been hit too. I couldn't see it well over my shoulder, but my big clue was the screaming pain. I was scraped all over, had lost my windbreaker, and, if I wasn't mistaken, I was sitting in a patch of poison ivy.
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Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.
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In movies, people always "borrow" cars by yanking some wires out from under the dash and connecting them. But the real way it works involves a screwdriver and the starter thingy, under the hood. My personal ethics prevent me from giving you more information. That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers."
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Attempting to drive a car before you find and release the parking brake is like trying to drag a Saint Bernard into a bathtub. But
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They are almost directly above him. He closes his eyes and listens to their laughter upstairs. They are in love, he thinks, or at least they sound like it. His heart is pounding. He is here, and they don't know it. That is special all by itself--they think they're sharing something intimate, but he gets to be a part of it.
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Um, hi." I finally squeak out a few words. "The other day at school, we had this substitute teacher. Very tough. Sort of like Mrs. Darth Vader. Had the heavy breathing, the deep voice. During roll call, she said, 'Are you chewing gum, young man?' And I said, 'No, I'm Jamie Grimm.' " I wait (for what seems like hours) and, yes, the audience kind of chuckles. It's not a huge laugh, but it's a start. Okay."
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Fang pondered. It always amazes me how he's able to seem so calm at the absolute worst times. Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.
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Moorehouse and Rogers, one of whom was the legendary Collins Rappaport as second chair. Parisi, as co-counsel to the law firm, would be first chair, and he would be doing hand-to-hand combat with her. Yuki
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desk,
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house in
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Now I appreciate that for those of you who have stayed with me this far, there's nothing too surprising about this romantic development. You probably saw it coming. But I didn't
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of AIM Sparrow and AIM Sidewinder missiles, nestled under the wings, hummed as they powered on,
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KHATCHADORIAN SCORES! RIGHT
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binoculars, adjusts the oxygen hose around his head again. It was just too damn strange, too damn out of the ordinary. No moving vans, no friends stopping by; neither the husband nor the wife--if they
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If you are lucky you will find something you love doing, if you're really lucky you'll find someone to pay you to do it
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He removes one hand from the binoculars, checks the lumpy shape under his blanket, resting on his lap. It's his backup weapon from when he was on the job, a .38 Smith & Wesson Police Special. Ronald nods
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You can't bring the dead back. You can't even make sense of why things happen. All you can do is the best you can to let the living believe their souls are at peace.
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Her name was Erica Williams before she married Fish. I think she was from Honolulu but I don't know for sure. As to where she is now? I don't even know if she's in the United States. She was so ashamed of Randy. She couldn't hold her head up. After Bill died, she had a tag sale. Sold most of her things and then just took off." Cindy"
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Madre, hija, nino de tres anos --insisti, empezando otra vez a enfadarme--. A nadie les importan una mierda. --?Y que? Nadie se preocupaba por ellos cuando estaban vivos. ?Por que esperas que se preocupen ahora que han muerto?
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want the world to know how I felt about her. But now
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The house continues to call out from parts unseen, aches and hiccups and wheezes, a centuries-old creature drawing long, labored breaths. When
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If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more in real life.
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life
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Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.
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that she has whatever she needs in order to heal." She stood up. "You take care, Jack. God bless. I mean"
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Stanford said, "He's in"
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Joy--that's the word. So easy to say, so hard to find in life sometimes.
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