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1 " Oh, goodie," Puck said as I stepped forward. " I'm going to have a rash in the most uncomfortable places. "
2 " Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency. "
― Ann Voskamp , One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
3 " Have you been walking in the woods in the last few days?" Matt asked.Lola cleared her throat anxiously. What had she managed to do now, catch jungle fever? " We went hiking in the Greenhills on Wednesday. What's wrong?" Her voice sounded squeaky, so she closed her eyes and took a steadying breath." I don't suppose you've heard of poison ivy," Matt asked. He traced the curve of her knee, pushing the hem of her skirt up her thigh. " Small plant, three leaves, glossy green. Causes a rash of small bumps about a day after contact. Sound familiar? "
4 " His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous society, and all his life could be as open and sunny as the square beneath him. He had, on the other other hand, only to keep his antiquated honour, and be delivered inch by inch into the power of this great enemy of mankind, whose very intellect was a torture-chamber. Whenever he looked down into the square he saw the comfortable policeman, a pillar of common sense and common order. Whenever he looked back at the breakfast-table he saw the President still quietly studying him with big, unbearable eyes. "
― G.K. Chesterton , The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
5 " When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it. "
