"Sometimes, love was not enough."

-- Sarah MacLean

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“One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
“Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.”
“Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. Itâ€™s why theyâ€™re writers. If they didnâ€™t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldnâ€™t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. Itâ€™s not the outsiderâ€™s facility for language that makes her a writer â€” many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase â€” but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.”
“We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.”
“Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain â€“ ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.
“That's good. Go on, read some more.”
“Indigenous people made huge contributions to this country. The biggest is in sharing the land and resources. People need to see that, understand that. Indigenous people should be viewed as the founding peoples of this land.”

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