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“I know I only have one arm, but I’d be proud to have you on it.”
― Willowy Whisper, Meet My Boyfriend

“There was death at the beginning as there would be death again at its end. Though whether it was some fleeting shadow of this that passed across the girl’s dreams and woke her on that least likely of mornings she would never know. All she knew, when she opened her eyes, was that the world was somehow altered.

The red glow of her alarm showed it was yet a half hour till the time she had set it to wake her and she lay quite still, not lifting her head, trying to configure the change. It was dark but not as dark as it should be. Across the bedroom, she could clearly make out the dull glint of her riding trophies on cluttered shelves and above them the looming faces of rock stars she had once thought she should care about. She listened. The silence that filled the house was different too, expectant, like the pause between the intake of breath and the uttering of words. Soon there would be the muted roar of the furnace coming alive in the basement and the old farmhouse floorboards would start their ritual creaking complaint. She slipped out from the bedclothes and went to the window.


There was snow. The first fall of winter. And from the laterals of the fence up by the pond she could tell there must be almost a foot of it. With no deflecting wind, it was perfect and driftless, heaped in comical proportion on the branches of the six small cherry trees her father had planted last year. A single star shone in a wedge of deep blue above the woods. The girl looked down and saw a lace of frost had formed on the lower part of the window and she placed a finger on it, melting a small hole. She shivered, not from the cold, but from the thrill that this transformed world was for the moment entirely hers. And she turned and hurried to get dressed.”
― Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whisperer

“I don't want to sound like a badass, but I eject my USB without removing it safely.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs.”
― Kathryn Miller Haines, The Girl Is Murder

“Stop thinking of me as broken or not whole. Put that bullshit down and walk away. It's not doing you any good and it's insulting to me.”
― J.R. Ward, Consumed

“Flying kisses are ones that make your insides feel like you're accelerating to reach altitude, and the moment you begin to soar, your chest can fill with air again, and your body floats free. I never had a flying kiss and always thought Mum was talking romantic nonsense." He took a deep breath, looked back at his hands, and smiled. "Apparently, it wasn't nonsense.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“You can be afraid and still strong, still fearless and indomitable. You can be afraid, and you can trust, and then when you're ready, you can let go of the fear. Fear muffles you. Let it go, and then you can live out loud again like you're meant to.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn’t seem to be getting any better at goalkeeping.”
― Ian Colquhoun

“Whatever words get said in the heat of anger, or cold fear, or even calm conversation, it's your choice to believe them, and your choice to give them meaning. Because you know what? They are just words, and the only power words have over us is the power we give them.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“You don't limp at all. Your recovery is going well."
"Yes." Though whether someone ever fully recovered from losing a limb, he didn't know. He sure as hell hadn't. It had been five years, and still there were days when the pain in his nonexistent leg was enough to drive him out of his mind.”
― Laura Oliva, A World Apart

“A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“My entryway had just become mortification central, and my face flamed horrendously. So I did the only thing one can do when one makes a complete ass of oneself. I kissed him.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“It's the differences between men and women that keep things interesting

- Gabriel Eze”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Payback and Karma are the bitchy little sisters of Revenge, and I promise you, it's not a family you want to mess with.
-Shane, P.I.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“I taste you in my dreams," he murmured against my mouth. "I think about kissing you ten, fifty, a hundred times a day.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“Feeling empty just means you're ready for filling.
-Miri Eze”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“I told my brain I wasn't presenting myself as an open target for the arms that encircled my waist as he stepped up behind me, but I was a lying liar who lied, especially when I tried to pretend indifference.”
― April White, Code of Conduct

“The unfamiliar body part--I was afraid to name it--was out in the open, his foot nowhere to be found. I was later told to call it a "stump," a word I would never feel comfortable saying. The empty space below his knee sucked the air out of my body until I was empty, too. And then I was running in the opposite direction. It was too permanent, too real. His foot was gone. It was just fucking gone.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“I imagined what cutting off a leg entailed, what it must have looked like lying beside the rest of his body. What does one do with a severed leg? I wondered.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir