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Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled?

You come to know the pattern of your particular chemical bombardment. The numbness, the lack of focus, the artificial sense of peace when the meds first hit your system. The growing paranoia and anxiety as they wane. The worse you feel, the more you can get into the treacherous waters of your own thoughts. The greater the threat from the inside, the more you long for those waters, as if you’ve grown accustomed to the terrible tentacles that seek to draw you into their crushing embrace.

My friend, life can often be most brutal and unfair. Death is the same.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent.

I feel her wave of worry like a patio heater – faint and ineffective, but constant.

There are few things he can stand less than a bunch of morons standing around looking at something that doesn’t work and wondering who’s going to fix it.

I was on my bike and got hit by some damfoo’ in a Mercedes.

Forse siamo come una moneta in bilico.

What does she fear in idleness?

Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can’t remember being well?

How strange to actually have to see the path of your journey in order to make it.

Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled? Maybe. Or maybe with so much conflicting media, people just shut down. Maybe that’s the point.

But Morrison put up his hands in instant surrender. “Leave me out of this,” he said. “I’m not going up against Scythe Anastasia.

Good God – don’t they teach you anything in those poor excuses for schools anymore?” Then he calms down, but only a little. “No, I suppose they wouldn’t. History is written by the victors – and when there are no victors, it all winds up in corporate shredders.” He looks out the window with the sad resignation of a man who knows he’s too old to change the world.

Are you heading out or heading home?” asked the woman sitting beside him in 15A. There was no 15B – the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.

I’m sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they’re proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch.

Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now.

From now on, I want my life to be about living.

People like you because you’ve got integrity. Even when you’re being an ass.

He had to live long enough to forge a purpose greater than that.

Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.

She stayed with the Toll because deep down, she believed that Greyson Tolliver was the real thing. That he was divinely moved by the Tone, and that his humility about it was understandable. A humble nature was, after all, the hallmark of a true holy man. It made perfect sense that he would refuse to believe he was part of the Holy Triad, but just because he didn’t believe it himself, didn’t make it any less true.

Correction must be about lifting one up from one’s poor choices and prior deeds. As long as remorse is sincere, and one is willing to make recompense, there is no purpose to suffering.

I don’t buy that what-comes-can’t-be-avoided garbage. Anything can be avoided if you try hard enough.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other’s it’s true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Mitch’s father’s exclusive gated community had an extensive guard gate. In fact, it had two. It also had an electrified fence. And towers with armed guards. All things considered, few gated communities could be more exclusive than the Colorado State Penitentiary.

She supposed it must always be this way; once the unthinkable settles into being the norm you become numb to it. She never wanted to be that numb.

Morrison kept looking to everyone else, probably hoping someone would provide him with an opinion, because he wasn’t ready to have one of his own.

They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

Rumors are like rain through an old roof. The effort of finding the source is greater than the cost of a new roof.

There are some things I don’t understand, and don’t think I ever will. I don’t understand how a person can give up so totally and completely that they dive right into the heart of a black hole... And I don’t understand how pride can be more important than love.

He put the ring away, and Rowan let out his breath, not even realizing he had been holding it.

Rocks eroded into astonished faces.

I ain’t no runaway, I’m a run-to.

In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow.

Mom removed all games that remotely suggest violence and death-but Cody’s doing a good job of making harmless cartoon characters suffer in fresh and inventive ways.

You’re not eating, Cam,” Roberta says as she comes out to join him across the table. Roberta – his creator, or builder – whatever term one gives to the individual who conceived of you. Perhaps, then, it should be “mother,” though he’s loath to use the word.

You don’t so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death.

I have no doubt that, one way or another, you’ll fill the empty spaces left behind.

We leave justice to the universe. And what rings out always echos back.

For only the pain of empathy will keep us human.

I’m leaping off a cliff only to discover I can fly... and then realizing there’s nowhere to land. Ever. That’s what’s going on.

It’s strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don’t you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it’s only good the second time if it’s the first time for somebody else – as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you. The power of shared experiences. Maybe it’s a way to remind ourselves that on some level we’re all connected.

The difference between you and me... is that when I look at the world, I see opportunity. When you look at the world, you’re just trying to find a place to urinate.

Have you sufficiently boiled yourself, Your Excellency, or has the heat this year not been enough for you?

I don’t think God have us this anymore than he gives little kids cancer or makes poor people lottery winners... if anything, he gives us courage to deal.

Rowan grinned. “Come now, Your Excellency, there hasn’t been a terrorist in hundreds of years. I’m just a janitor cleaning filth from dark corners.

I think about religion and how, once we because our own saviors, our own gods, most faiths became irrelevant. What must it have been like to believe in something greater than oneself? To accept imperfection and look to a rising vision of all we could never be? It must have been comforting. It must have lifted people from the mundane, but also justified all sorts of evil. I often wonder if the bright benefit of belief outweighed the darkness its abuse could bring.

Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you’ve ever been there, you know the signs don’t tell you the exit you’re coming up to, they only point out the exits you’ve just missed.

It wasn’t just that he didn’t see the big picture, sometimes he saw a different picture entirely.

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