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I'm his locomotive and he's my shield.

Karen Marie Moning

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Karen Marie Moning
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 1
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Locomotive
Locomotives
Shield
Shields

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The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today how I wish he'd go away! ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black
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How will we get back up? I worried. I have a different route in mind for our return trip. Does it involve stairs? I asked hopefully. No. Of course not. How silly of me. And for our return adventure we will be scaling the side of Mount Everest, hiking boots to be provided by our trusty sponsor, Barrons Books and Baubles.
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He goes for stark versus accessorized, dark over bright, jewel tone instead of pastel, carnal over flirty.
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Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
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It's so easy to lie. What’s even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don’t have to face the truth, don’t have to feel alone.
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It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.
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One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.
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Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.
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Oh, drop the act, Tinkerbell, and get rid of my problem. Then we’ll talk.
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He didn't just occupy space he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.
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What are you?” I said irritably. “In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I’m stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don’t apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.
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I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.
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My heart has jet lag.
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You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.
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In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.
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You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.
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people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close.
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There are three floors beneath the garage? Why on earth? -Mac
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Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.
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I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.
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