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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 15d48bc | examination. "Sometimes" | Jeff Brown | ||
| e631049 | We found this," Debs said, standing at my shoulder and holding up a plastic evidence bag with a sheet of plain white paper in it. There was a red-brown stain of dried blood on one corner, but I took the bag from her and looked: On the paper was written a short message, in a large and ornate font that could have come from any computer printer in the world. It said, He disagreed with someone who ate him. "I didn't realize cannibals were so cl.. | Jeff Lindsay | ||
| 541643c | He set down the coffee and placed another log for splitting. Another biting cold wind blew through the trees, and he pulled his red stocking cap down more over his ears, and pulled up the collar of his wool-lined denim jacket. He had neglected to shave for a few weeks now, and was sporting a beard; and his light brown hair was even beginning to grow over his collar. If my old drill instructor from Parris Island could see me now, he'd kick .. | spy-thriller usmc | C.G. Faulkner | |
| 9ff3959 | It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin | Jeff J. Brown | ||
| 1a3551f | The body is a universe in and of itself. Built with innate intelligence and vigilant in its own protection. Constantly finding ways to contain painful feelings and emotions so that we can subsist. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 6958cfd | Sam Brown belt w/holster | Jeff Dawson | ||
| 856b3bc | You are the sculptor of your own reality. Don't hand your tools to anyone else. | Jeff Brown | ||
| ee0072b | another bank was robbed today, the third this month. The unusual robbers-- | Jeff Brown | ||
| 681620c | At the end of their conversation, for no good reason, he told a joke. "What's brown and sticky?" "I know that one," the Voice said. "A stick." "A turd." Click." | Jeff VanderMeer | ||
| e2f2020 | Stanley was pleased that his classmates, who still remembered his | Jeff Brown | ||
| 737d98e | Politics were the ultimate frustration. | Karen Traviss | ||
| ff21243 | To eliminate feeblemindedness, Goddard rejected the calls of people like McKim to kill the feebleminded. But he did want to make sure they didn't get to have children. And by "they," Goddard mostly meant women." | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 503252b | The story of the Kallikaks, Goddard concluded, was a powerful argument for rounding up the feebleminded and putting them in colonies, at least until a better solution could be found. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 3024436 | THIS PART OF THE HOSPITAL SEEMS LIKE FOREIGN COUNTRY to me. There is no sense of the battlefield here, no surgical teams in gore-stained scrubs trading witty remarks about missing body parts, no steely-eyed administrators with their clipboards, no herds of old drunks in wheelchairs, and above all, no flocks of wide-eyed sheep huddled together in fear at what might come out of the double steel doors. There is no stench of blood, antiseptic, .. | Jeff Lindsay | ||
| 6f7205a | Unbelieving, I look again, and there it is. There it still is. Four neat rows of pink and brown, tiny wiggling creatures, so small and prunish and useless--and yet it is they who have turned this crowd of healthy, kill-crazy humans into a half-melted splotch of dribbling helplessness. And beyond this mighty feat of magic, even more absurd and dramatic and unbelievable, one of those tiny pink lumps has taken our Dark Dabbler, Dexter the Deci.. | Jeff Lindsay | ||
| 2cc58c0 | Unbelieving, I look again, and there it is. There it still is. Four neat rows of pink and brown, tiny wiggling creatures, so small and prunish and useless--and yet it is they who have turned this crowd of healthy, kill-crazy humans into a half-melted splotch of dribbling helplessness. And beyond this mighty feat of magic, even more absurd and dramatic and unbelievable, one of those tiny pink lumps has taken our Dark Dabbler, Dexter the Deci.. | Jeff Lindsay | ||
| a3aa724 | Enough of crime!" Bustling in," | Jeff Brown | ||
| df9f095 | You believe first, then you achieve. | Jeff Brown | ||
| 51d7898 | The body can only do what the mind can imagine. | Jeff Brown | ||
| aa31287 | There is nothing new except that which has become antiquated. | Antiquity | ||
| 2564450 | The Engineer began dismantling the helmet at a breakneck speed, stacking the components--faceplate, lining, mikes, data processor, even microfans--on the nearest flat surface, a hydroplane-like structure on a small vessel. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 8e80473 | Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han | Karen Traviss | ||
| d4c19fa | That much took no Force techniques to achieve, because a confident air of purpose often opened more doors than an ID pass. He | Karen Traviss | ||
| b523f22 | They had both been raised in complete isolation from the everyday world, with their own set of values and disciplines, not because they had been chosen to be different but because they had been born that way. Their calling was random, genetic--unfair. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 3e4c3e4 | But it wasn't a moment's emotion for his grandfather: it was the whole of him. Anakin had been driven to the dark side by agonized love. The revelation stunned Jacen because it was so narrow and so ... selfish. Relief flooded him. This is different. That isn't what I feel, or what's driving me. And | Karen Traviss | ||
| 69ae5be | killed in a way I didn't think I ever could. I'm appalled at what I can do. I don't enjoy this." "If you enjoyed it, Jacen, you would not be the one destined to become the Sith Lord." The" | Karen Traviss | ||
| 91a787c | Is it me? Is it me? Am I deluding myself, Jaina? Am I making the same mistake as Grandfather? I have days--most days--when I'm as certain of this as I've ever been certain of anything. And then I have sleepless nights when I wonder if the path of the Sith is a lasting solution for peace in the galaxy, or if that's my ego speaking for me. It terrifies me. But if I were motivated by ambition, then I wouldn't suffer this doubt, would I? Jaina,.. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 36f929a | MARK DONALDSON WAY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIA DAY, TWO MONTHS AFTER THE BATTLE OF EARTH, JANUARY 26, 2553. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 379fb4d | It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 2b8b28e | she worried that Jedi raised other Jedi in a constant soulless cycle of detached, cold indifference, | Karen Traviss | ||
| 2f55da2 | I don't want to worry you," he said, "but some Kig-Yar have put out a mev-ut on you and Vaz for shooting up their buddies on Reynes." "That's bad, is it?" "If they catch you, yes. It's a reward for bringing back body parts as proof of a kill." "Any parts in particular? I use some of mine more than others." "With UNSC, it's heads and cervical vertebrae. And they love ones with neural implants." "Dearie me." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 072a2a0 | What are these things?" he asked. "I saw them on the river, too." Ruby- and sapphire-colored insects were dancing above the surface of the puddle. "Daywings," Etain said. "I've never seen colors like it." "They hatch and take flight for a day, and they die by the evening," she said. "A brief and glorious ..." Her voice trailed off. She was appalled at her own insensitivity. She began assembling an apology, but Darman didn't appear to need o.. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 398fe1c | New families, like young nations after violent wars of independence or social revolutions, perhaps need to anchor their beginnings in a symbolic moment and nail that instant in time. | narrative story | Valeria Luiselli | |
| c6694fe | Sev, feeling embarrassed by his reaction, examined the bones. The left arm came off in his hand. "Yep, he's dead all right." Scorch sucked his teeth noisily. It was extra-amplified in the scuba trooper helmets. "Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?" "Nah, I'm prepared to go out on a limb." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 30d1d0e | Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" "They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them." | wess-har | Karen Traviss | |
| ed79090 | That was the trouble with opportunities. If they were exceptional, then they had to be seized first and thought through later. | Karen Traviss | ||
| d40e688 | Darman was determined to make him welcome. "'Cuy, vod'ika." He slapped the seat next to him. "Park your shebs there. We'd pour you some of the GAR-issue caf but we like you too much for that. We're waiting for Sergeant Kal." Corr sat down as ordered, and Niner and Atin leaned across to clasp his arm." | Karen Traviss | ||
| fb2ec8f | I bet you were a Boy Scout." "You are incomprehensible." "It's just a compliment." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 3fc286d | Rock shrews. It had all started with damned rock shrews. | Karen Traviss | ||
| e321aff | Darman was expert at his craft, too, but there was a sense of hard-won skill, and there was no randomness or mystery to that. She liked him for being so pragmatic. It crossed her mind that she might be saving clone soldiers from death by biological agent so they could die from blaster and cannon round. It was a horrible thought. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 5e602d0 | I tell you this: think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you. | Karen Traviss | ||
| 6d48b49 | If you were a nomad, your nation traveled in your heart. And without the Mando heart, you had nothing -not even your soul- in whatever new conquest followed death | Karen Traviss | ||
| e238454 | Oh, I'm coming too." BB rotated and moved in Naomi's direction. "A fragment of me will remain here to pilot the ship, but I'll transfer to the Mjolnir. We've never done this for real before, by the way. Have we, Naomi?" "Why now?" "Why not? I know I'm not your dedicated AI, but I can do anything Cortana can." Mal picked up a little rivalry there. He'd have to ask about Cortana later." | Karen Traviss | ||
| 2fc3060 | Nobody else in Special Operations knows about this, and I really don't want Skirata to know, because ... fine man though he might be, he does have an issue with Kaminoans. Any man who refers to them as tatsushi and actually boasts of recipes is probably best kept out of the loop. Dismissed." Scorch chuckled approvingly as they clunked their way down the corridor toward the mess with Maze at their heels. "You think Skirata would really eat a.. | Karen Traviss |