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Either you__e with me or you__e against me. I can__ afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

I__ been called a freak, and worse, all through school. Now that I__ finally graduated, I was sick of it. I__ hoped that no one would ever call me names again. Oh well, if wishes were flying monkeys, we__ all be wearing tiny hats.

Sometimes,_ he starts, __he hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women__ rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.

Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the air, not even birds sang.

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.

I don__ want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.

With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.

Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,_ he said, turning to face me. __oth will test the limits of your sanity. Will you believe me if I tell you that they will help you?___ot likely,_ I said, __ut let's get on with it.

Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the results.

Kammy jerked upright. It was as though the trees had parted beneath the pressure of the storm and a bolt of lightning had struck her. She had never entered the mouth for it had always been much too small. Yet, she had never seen anything else enter it either. The thought alone made her feel sick with excitement and fear. A small voice told Kammy that such a reaction was ridiculous, it was just a squirrel. But warmth spread to the tips of Kammy__ fingers as they stretched forward. She could see now that it was not a burrow at all, but a tunnel large enough for her to fit through. She was quite sure that she would not even have to bend her head. The same small voice tried to speak again but Kammy could not hear it through the rush of blood in her ears.Kammy stepped inside the mouth of the forest and felt herself flipped upside down.

I don__ have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait as far as he was concerned. As long as he knew she was safe, it would all be okay.

On Algebra - "We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I'm concerned...Damn it! They put a man on the moon; can't they find some way to end the scourge of Algebra?

No._ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. __his is just the beginning, you__l see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.