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This was it. This was what I had never felt before--an emotional connection to another human being. I'd tried kindness, I'd tried love, I'd tried friendship. I'd tried talking and sharing and watching, and nothing had ever worked until now. Until fear. I felt her fear in every inch of my body like an electric hum, and I was alive for the first time. I needed more right then or the craving would eat me alive. .Dan Wells
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It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John CleaverDan Wells
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Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John CleaverDan Wells
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You'll never see us coming.Dan Wells
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People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.Dan Wells
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In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to eat, breathe, reproduce, and grow. Dogs do, rocks don't, trees do, plastic doesn't. Fire, by that definition, is vibrantly alive. It eats everything from wood to flesh, excreting the waste as ash, and it breathes air just like a human, taking in oxygen and emitting carbon. Fire grows, and as it spreads, it creates new fires that spread out and make new fires of their own. Fire drinks gasoline and excretes cinders, it fights for territory, it loves and hates. Sometimes when I watch people trudging through their daily routines, I think that fire is more alive than we are—brighter, hotter, more sure of itself and where it wants to go. Fire doesn't settle; fire doesn't tolerate; fire doesn't 'ge .Dan Wells
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Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.Dan Wells
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I'm on the edge, Neblin, I'm off the edge - I'm over the edge and falling into hell on the other side.'' Calm down, John, ' he said. 'We can work through this. Just tell me where you are.'' I'm down in the cracks of the sidewalks, ' I said, 'in the dirt and in the blood, and the ants are looking up and we're damning you all, Neblin. I'm down in the cracks and I can't get out.Dan Wells