"One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn't allow them to drift into the story and not notice that they are reading a book - a book that has an author."

-- Rob Roberge

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“I have been exposed to a great deal of the issues surrounding PTSD, but what I have learned that is most relevant to my work on Mercy Street is that this illness is timeless. We didn't have a diagnosis for PTSD in the Civil War like we do today, but those men and women definitely suffered from similar psychological wounds as our men and women in uniform do today.”
“Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution.”
“And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”
“We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.”
“Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.”
“The way I've been playing, I didn't really care who I was going to be playing first round.”
“Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?”
“Wisdom is the repose of the mind.”

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