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His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was her.

She made his lungs work, his heart beat.

It was a goddamn disease is what it was.


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KING GEORGE V The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly
ANKALA V SUBBARAO With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our ...
ELAINE V. EMANS Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt fr...
E. V. RIEU While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there...
EUGENE V DEBS All work and no fore-play makes Jane a dull girl...
ANKALA V SUBBARAO It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific...
C. V. RAMAN An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the write...
V. S. NAIPAUL Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.
HEINZ V. BERGEN I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy.
MARIA V. SNYDER When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are ...
EUGENE V. DEBS Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of...
V. GORDON CHILDE No one is going to turn down a good meal because he does not understand the digestive mechanism.
V. I. KLASSEN If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourse...
MATTHEW V. LEWIS The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.
MARIA V. SNYDER The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and ...
E. V. LUCAS Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.
H. V. WADE Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely in...
V. S. PRITCHETT The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The ...
EUGENE V. DEBS Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. LUCAS The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Pr...
C. V. RAMAN What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material...
V. S. NAIPAUL The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized throu...
C. V. RAMAN The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
HARVEY V. FINEBERG I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They wi...
C. V. RAMAN I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and...
MARK V. HURD Given the tremendous customer response we have had to the Gaylord National, we have decided to incre...
COLIN V. REED I've been a free man.
V. S. NAIPAUL ...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE ...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something...
RICHARD V. CLEMENCE If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
ANDREW V. MASON I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' postu...
RICHARD V. ALLEN