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61 " They stood there looking as if they'd weathered a brief but intense storm between Bagel's cubicle and the break room. "
― Mandy Ashcraft , Small Orange Fruit
62 " It was almost beautiful if you didn't think about it ever, at all. "
63 " The hatred was, in a word, monochromatic. "
64 " There just seemed to be so many evolutionary layers to each individual person, some more than others, that they were able to blend their differences into a living mural the way a planet like Hessdalen never could. And never would, seeing as how it had ceased to exist entirely. It had missed it's chance. "
65 " I doubt there's any significance in a second-to-last breath. "
66 " He'd chain-smoked so heavily over the years in the vicinity of that travel bag that he wouldn't be surprised if the leather had developed a tumor. "
67 " It was humanity's way of shrugging 'I don't know, what do you think?' Humanity also had a rather difficult time handling the answers to it's own question. "
68 " Over all, it appeared to be some sort of drug or money laundering front that was having a terribly difficult time of not coming across as both. "
69 " A stock photograph of a smiling couple was meant, presumably, to bring comfort to the brochure-reader. If the faux couple being paid to grin while staring slightly off to the right could be happy, so could you. "
70 " If 'quaint' was a piano's Middle C, Marfa was a B-flat; it was peacefully strange. "
71 " She was fantastically beautiful, so even though her words sounded like fragile utopian glass that would shatter horrendously on Earth in about five minutes, it sounded nice when she said it. "
72 " For the cost of their service, they were enthusiastically organized. "