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41 " Although relocating to a state he imagined he'd not even used in a sentence since grade school was not in his life plan, it had seemed like a glittering offer slid across a table off of which he couldn't afford to eat. "
― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit
42 " Sorry it took me so long to get back here. I went out front to smoke, and then I saw Angel's truck was unlocked and made myself a burrito with a crushed up fortune cookie inside,' said the only person they knew that would say that, carrying the little grey kitten. He pulled a wet paper fortune out of the beans. 'My burrito says 'Keep your eye on the prize'. "
43 " Mens formalwear is not conducive to such un-refined things as cowering in an office corner, or curling up in the fetal position on a desk. "
44 " I wasn't sure if I'd imagined you and it'd be very telling of my mental state if I was bringing sodas to something I'd imagined. "
45 " Rock bottom had turned out to be more greasy and hairy than rocky. "
46 " ...celebrating in a sea of little more than cacti and a billion stars. "
47 " Unlike in the movies, the weather seemed indifferent to his personal predicament and refused dramatic contribution. It was a rather pleasant day, in fact. "
48 " In order to cope with death, you need the correct punctuation. Not a final period, not a comma as on Aleya, but a chance to fill in the blank--- life, 'dot dot dot'. "
49 " She was an anomaly of her own universe and of his, and represented the collision of everything he'd ever known and everything he'd ever wanted to. "
50 " He smiled at her, the same smile stapled to the mask of every career politician. "
51 " ...from sweaty-palmed anxiety blooms vivid imagination. "
52 " He ended up smashing several fax machines for the failure they represented to him, but of course had to pay for them because of what they represented to the Best Buy stores in which they'd been smashed. "
53 " So you're Charity?' he asked, trying to ease the tension. Her current behavior was not fitting of the name; her parents must have had less kidnapping-related ambitions for her. "
54 " The doors closed behind him, and Kelvin was swallowed into the elevator shaft that took him back down to the belly of his self-made monster. "
55 " ...they were mixing and mingling their powerful supporters together like a hearty granola of golfballs and checkbooks. "
56 " They had not just slipped into that frigid pool, they lived there now. They didn't want a ladder. "
57 " It was as if humans' lives didn't end per se, but kind of trailed off with punctuating ellipses. After that third dot it was open-ended, brilliantly poised for anything one could imagine. Earth was warm with potential like that. "
58 " It was a beaten-down level of sharing responsibility; a frail society holding each other's hands just to keep from falling over. "
59 " The driver had recently scraped an 'AMRAK is Love' decal from his back window, leaving a sticky residue of his former beliefs. "
60 " ...it was one of his more charming and less murderous, conspiring qualities. "