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"Don't want no more rock, Orc repeated.The bleeding stopped almost immediately."Does it hurt? Lana asked. "I mean the rock. I know the hole hurts."No. It don't hurt. Orc slammed his fist against his opposite arm, hard enough that any human arm would have been shattered. "I barely feel it. Even Drake's whip, when we was fighting, I barely felt it.Suddenly he was weeping. Tears rolled from human eyes onto cheeks of flesh and pebbles."I don't feel nothing except, He pointed a thick stone finger at the flesh of his face."Yeah, Lana said. Her irritation was gone. Her burden was smaller, maybe, than Orc's."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."

"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"

"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."

"Do not give up. Be strong!"

"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."

"It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it."

"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless."

"I don't necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don't wait around for an invitation to stand back up either."

"For every setback, do not get discouraged. Rejoice because you learned more than you expected."

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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

"But then had come the voice that said, Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let's get this done with."

"Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes."Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, "Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day?"

"Lana's going through them one at a time. Healing them. She's amazing."Sam thought he heard something extra in Edilio's voice. "She's cute too, huh Edilio?"Edilio's eyes went wide and started blushing. "She's just...you know..."Sam slapped his shoulder. "Good luck with that.""You think she...I mean, you know me, I'm just..." Edilio stammered his way to a stop."Dude, let's see if we can stay alive. Then you can ask her out or whatever."

"Albert, I don't know how long we can keep Sam involved at all, she said."You're upset, Albert replied."Yes, I'm upset. But that's not the point. Sam is out of control. If we're ever going to have a working system we may have to find someone else to play the role of savior.Albert sighed. "Astrid, we don't know what's out there in the night. And maybe you're right that Sam is out of control. But me? I'm really glad it's him out there getting ready to face whatever it is.Albert picked up his omnipresent notebook and left.To a now empty, silent room, Astrid said, "Don't die, Sam. Don't die."

"It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me."
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