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Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.Trenton Lee Stewart
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Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what you are expecting in life.Joan D. Chittister
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One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest, ' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best.Joan D. Chittister
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I've just had a really evil idea."" My favourite kindJoss Stirling
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You pushed it too far. You shouldn't take the same risk again."" Says the guy who got shot.Joss Stirling
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Yeah, well, not many boys take their girls out on a duck shoot with them as target for a first date. You have to give me points for style.Joss Stirling
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So, Zed, isn’t this a killer outfit?”“ Certainly a killer, baby.”“ Good, because I’ve bought another five just like it.”“ You horrible, teasing fairy. If you really have more of those fashion disasters in your bags, I’m gonna hang you on top of the family Christmas tree in December.Joss Stirling
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What were we talking before I was so rudely interrupted by a flying citrus ?Joss Stirling
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You have half our gifts. I the other. Together we make a whole. Together we are much more powerful.Joss Stirling
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But I’ve kept first of March as my birthday as I like to tease Zed about dating an older woman. And my parents wouldn’t understand if I told them about the soulfinder bond and tried to change it.”“ They don’t know?”“ Well, I think they’ve picked up that there’s something special between Zed and me but I’m not sure how I’d even start to explain to non-savants. I was exactly overjoyed when Zed filled me in about it all the first time.”“ What did you do?”“ Thumped him with a shopping bag and told him he was a jerk.”“ Ouch.Joss Stirling
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Glancing in through the open door to Xav’s room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Sky’s absence at his side.Joss Stirling
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Oh my gosh, don’t you both look pretty! ” We looked like rejects from the auditions for The Sound of Music.“I will have to buy them — they are meant to be yours! ” Karla waved her credit card around like a wand.“ What a shame they didn’t have one in green for me. But then, it is a young girl’s style. I would’ve looked foolish.Joss Stirling
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Sky. Hope mixed with horror as I searched for Zed, quessing he would not have let his soulfinder walk into this situation alone. I finally identified him as the heavily bearded drummer in the flowery shirt and, yes, socks and sandals. I bit my tongue, repressing the absurd desire to laugh at his fashion sacrifice for our cause.Joss Stirling
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I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.Joss Stirling