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The world is a clock winding down.

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Rick Yancey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 4
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Miami
Florida
Richard Yancey
William James Henry
Will Henry
Clock
World
Winding

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Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
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His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.
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In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.
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Dr. Warthrop chopped off my finger with a butcher knife.
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I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.
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