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2f636df Meditating and getting to a quiet place when alone was somehow much different from feeling the Force in combat or while piloting or practicing against drones. When I opened myself to the Force in those situations, it was more of an instinctive process, and I felt guided and warned in an almost effortless way, perhaps owing to a combat-ready state of action and reaction where there is no time for thought, and a profound sense of personal dan.. Kevin Hearne
5370bce hasenpfeffer Kevin Hearne
ea5cfc5 You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what that means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes have glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator. Sophie and the six crewmen might have understood Kevin Hearne
d1eb280 along. I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love--or perhaps the lack of it--that both picked us up and dropped u.. Kevin Hearne
1a1248c Vader deactivated his lightsaber, picked up the comm, opened the channel, and let the sound of his respirator carry over the connection. Kevin Hearne
3ceb996 Exactly! Two years ago I thought I'd never escape Tatooine and I complained about everything." I grimaced at the memory of how I'd behaved. "I'd definitely have some things to tell that kid now. And then everything changed. I met a Jedi, joined the Rebellion, and almost instantly had this tremendous success. I saved a princess and blew up a superweapon, got a medal from the same princess, fireworks in my honor and everything. That could tur.. Kevin Hearne
fe3e2dd the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility. You Kevin Hearne
8f64b0a Druids can't jump." Without" Kevin Hearne
90f9b71 had bees, for example, try to pollinate my nostril or ear because my red hair attracts them like a cluster of flowers, and once I get six legs and a pair of wings buzzing around in there, I forget about what I'm doing in Kevin Hearne
297b27e intoxicated Kevin Hearne
dc1043b suspect most people have someone like Beau Thatcher in their lives--a person standing in between who you used to be and who you want to be, guarding the wall and proclaiming that you shall forever be imprisoned by their expectations and obligations. Crossing to the other side will always be a struggle and fraught with dangers that may leave scars. But, oh, the reward when you leap over that wall or break through it and shed the burdens of t.. Kevin Hearne
4545f98 All the earth wants ye to do is thrive, and ye feel that love whenever ye contact an elemental. Kevin Hearne
aead8fe I have dinner for the whole crew at Mitchell Park in Tempe right now. Bring the truck.... Yes, there is enough for everybody, trust me. See you there." Whoa. He had ghouls on speed dial. My lawyer kicks so much ass." Kevin Hearne
7f879e1 I rapped my knuckles on Malina's door. The percussive sound seemed to offend the hallway's sense of decorum, and the quiet chastised me as it dropped into my ears like cotton balls. Kevin Hearne
87e9dd2 I am light and free and my path ahead is smooth and wide through a land of burgeoning promise. Kevin Hearne
ae54105 My bare foot sounded like a sad trout flapping against the marble floor. funny trout Kevin Hearne
6ac74bf I find the college children delightful. I would like to have a drink with them too." "No, Leif, you want to drink of them, and they can sense that subconsciously because you radiate this predatory aura." Kevin Hearne
5e75d64 This is great Kevin Hearne
d2bafb2 Gods blast it, I was asking ye where you shite in the city, not where I should do it!" I might have said that a bit too loudly, because people on the sidewalk look at me out of the corners of their eyes and swerve away from the man talking to a giant dog about where to drop a pound." Kevin Hearne
aacc9bc Giving a witch your body fluids is akin to slicing off a choice cut of your buttocks and offering it to a werewolf. Kevin Hearne
488d04d Well, when you're rockin' out with the Crue, it's like a religious experience, dude. Kevin Hearne
c085900 When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can't be my fault, can it? humorous-quotes Kevin Hearne
c831f49 At that point Daddy took them to a cemetery and said, "Here, kids--what you need is a nice corpse snack. Clotted blood! Om nom nom!" Kevin Hearne
84d6639 It is the whip that clerics use on the laity, making the sheep slaves to whatever moral code the shepherds espouse. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. Kevin Hearne
b0eabd5 know them Kevin Hearne
a68a88c is the Way and the Truth. Kevin Hearne
d6c56b3 Granuaile shook her head. "No, it's gross. You are such a guy sometimes." " Kevin Hearne
ca4510f Nakari would place bullet holes on their temples like periods at the end of a sentence. Kevin Hearne
b9343bf far past the time when everything might have turned out well. We are now in crisis management, hoping that things will turn out badly instead of much, much worse." That" Kevin Hearne
249ef6a That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous. Kevin Hearne
07c627f My father taught me that words shape people as the hammer shapes iron. Leaders bend religions to their purposes, and religions in turn bend the people who believe in them. Kevin Hearne
50e163c I promptly forgot about him and prepared a blend of Creativi-Tea, since I had some fantasy role-players coming in for their weekly dungeon crawl, and the DM always wanted a little something extra to keep him on top of his players. Kevin Hearne
816f6e9 It is by degrees of love that we wither or blossom--and I suspect that this holds true in both the giving and receiving. Kevin Hearne
e851ac0 People today think ancient Egypt was ineffably cool. I blame this misconception on hieroglyphics and (to a lesser extent) on the Bangles. Kevin Hearne
a0fa571 Other people in my life right now, who help me forget all the other people I have buried or lost: They are truly magic for me. Kevin Hearne
f832c8a Turns out that when you kill a god, people want to talk to you. Kevin Hearne
0436318 The victors' view of history rarely matches that of the vanquished. Kevin Hearne
9fdcf84 I can. This is America. You said Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.> Kevin Hearne
5cf46a9 His moral compass always points to himself; he is his own true north. Kevin Hearne
3a26ef5 And to be rooted is not the same thing at all as being tied down. To be rooted is to say, here am I nourished and here will I grow, for I have found a place where every sunrise shows me how to be more than what I was yesterday, and I need not wander to feel the wonder of my blessing. Kevin Hearne
d892e3b You should learn Polish and read Szymborska! Kevin Hearne
cb8dfa7 Orlaith asks as we return to the tree. Germany. You know they have sausages in vending machines there? Kevin Hearne
8457b34 Ignore that guy," I said, pointing down. "He's always intruding on my conversations and poking his head in where he's not wanted." Kevin Hearne
62bfa79 Ihave never thought that winds howled so much as moaned. My imagination gives them reasons: They moan because they're weary of their never-ending journey around the globe and are haunted by what they've witnessed--species extinction and coral-reef death and miles of trash floating in the ocean and a strange collection of humans who keep saying the earth is doing just fine, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary. Kevin Hearne