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“Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful.”

Book:Alarms and Discursions

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Alarms and Discursions

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“Do you know how rare life in the Universe really is? For every populated galaxy, we find dozens more incapable of supporting life. Whenever we encounter a civilization that hadn’t reached the means to travel the stars and accept the existence of other life forms, we protect it and observe its evolution. It’s what’s at the very base of The Union.”

Zev Rendition

Book:Reshaping Eliza

Source: Reshaping Eliza

“Life without love is empty and meaningless. I still believe I will die entirely and irrevocably devoted to sharing the message that love is absolute and infinite in a divine state.”

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Book:Just Love Her

Source: Just Love Her

“But it seemed so wrong, so scandalous, somehow so unreligious for a dead man to have to keep on fighting - or running, anyhow - that it made me sick at my stomach. I didn't want to have any more to do with the war if this was the way it was going to be”

Shiloh

Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox”

Shiloh

Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“They will tell you Shiloh was no cavalry battle; the field was too cut-up with ravines and choked with timber for the usual mounted work. However, none of Forrest's men realized this at the time and we had our moments”

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Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

“If anyone had bothered to notice me, they would only see a scared fifteen-year-old girl with eyes of sable ringed by kohl liner and black hair that fell to her waist. They wouldn't see someone struggling to remain sane. Only an empty space where a real girl used to live.”

Shiloh Beautifully Broken Sherry Soule

Book:Beautifully Broken

Source: Beautifully Broken

“But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at”

Shiloh

Book:Shiloh

Source: Shiloh

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