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People want to say that I’m on “their side.” But they don’t understand. Being a patriot means seeing what’s best in your country as well as facing its flaws honestly. It means loving it enough to want to see its wounds healed—and saying no to the whole idea of “sides.”
#vss365
The general gave Bowen a self-satisfied expression. The old bastard was enjoying himself.
“Nothing?” said Tolbert. “I figured you’d have some kind of... reaction.”
“You want Theresa euthanized,” said Bowen.
Tolbert nodded.
“Dead.”
#Thurds #ForbiddenMindsTheWayOut
Another thing that I love: Gustave Dore’s illustrations of Paradise Lost, the Bible, and Dante’s Divina Commedia.
#athingthatIlove
“We can’t just hide,” she said. “We’re going to have to run. We’re going to have to fight. Sometimes I might have to kill. Because the people who are coming after us now want to take you away from me. Do you understand?”
#ForbiddenMindsTheWayOut #Thurds
@NazarTalkComics There is nothing less boring than a person who pursues goodness and excellence in a world that hates both.
Val had become a Marine pilot because of her grandfather.
“I flew cause I loved it,” he’d told her once. “Cause I wanted to look down and see the world like an old patchwork quilt. But I fought cause that’s what I had to do. I had to serve.”
#1linewed #ForbiddenMindsTheWayOut
I’m about to begin recording Forbidden Minds: The Way Out (coming this fall from @UproarBooks) as an audiobook. I’ll be recording with my iPad with a @BlueMicrophones Snowball. If you have suggestions or warnings, I’d love to hear them!
#writingcommmunity
Their job was ground assault and street warfare, but Val’s unit had picked up a nickname for their ability to take down enemy aircraft. The Hellhounds. Val had been happy to share the name with the others, but she was the one who had earned it.
#vss365 #ForbiddenMindsTheWayOut