Greg van Eekhout As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. – Greg van Eekhout Grimness Quotes Reader Quotes Tales Quotes Tend Quotes Unrelenting Quotes Back in 1982, when there were still only a manageable number of ‘X-Men’ titles on the racks (by which I mean just one), Marvel quite reasonably figured the world could stand another team of beleaguered mutant superheroes. And so were born ‘The New Mutants,’ junior X-Men whose powers had just begun to manifest at the onset of puberty. As a kid, I didn’t need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became ‘The Boy at the End of the World,’ it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.
FriendshipSebastian Faulks I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating. – Sebastian Faulks
Peter JenningsWisdom I’ve always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. – Peter Jennings
Big Bank Hank Fame can take a toll on your personal life. Half of us were in short-lived marriages or not married at all. When you are doing something you love so much that you once did for free, and then someone pays you to do it, it’s like a blessing. But you have to be prepared for it. – Big Bank Hank
Phoebe Robinson The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don’t have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes. – Phoebe Robinson
John Baldacci We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards. – John Baldacci
David Leavitt Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. – David Leavitt
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