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“Our home was in a beautiful valley far back in the rugged Ozarks. The country was new and sparsely settled. The land we lived on was Cherokee land, allotted to my mother because of the Cherokee blood that flowed in her veins. It lay in a strip from the foothills of the mountains to the banks of the Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma.”
― Where the Red Fern Grows
― Where the Red Fern Grows
“If I were a lesbian, I’d probably be one of those lipstick lesbians, which I of course had in my pocket for touch-ups later.”
― Feeling Lucky
― Feeling Lucky

“When it’s over, all the equipment used is destroyed, even your clothing. Once it’s over every operator wipes his cranial hard drive clean of every moment of the mission, and you collectively go into blackout mode.”
― Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel
― Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel

“Beef had hit $300 a kilo. Not that he could recall the last time he’d tasted real beef.”
― The Eden Paradox
― The Eden Paradox

“I half expected to hear that stupid cackling laugh again, but there was just the fluttering of new leaves blowing in the cooler breeze. The sunken moon sat on the cosmic ledge like a judge sentencing me to doom. In the bright moonlight, I felt the depth of my ineptitude. To throw off my rage at the world, at myself, I picked up a rock and chucked it across the field, and then I went back home.”
― No Winter Lasts Forever
― No Winter Lasts Forever
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