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I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.Jonathan Maberry
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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.Jonathan Maberry
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Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.Jonathan Maberry
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So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"" That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me... what choice do you want to make now?Jonathan Maberry
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But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.Jonathan Maberry