Jonathan Maberry - Rot & Ruin (2010)

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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.

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There was a sliver of moon and a splash of stars, and the light outlined her face and glistened on the tears that ran like mercury down her cheeks.

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She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.

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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

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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.

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Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

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The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

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Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it."... "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.

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There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

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It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.

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Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.

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Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

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Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

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When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

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This one looks good, said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. 'Pit Thrower.' What's that? I don't know, Chong said with a mouth full of toast. I think it has something to do with barbecuing. It didn't.

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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.

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Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

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Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

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A wise man once said that we can't make anyone feel or do anything. We can throw things into the wind, but it's up to each person to decide how they want to react, where they want to stand when things fall.

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