1. It’s odd how life is rarely about those big important choices, but hinges on the small stupid choices you didn’t even realize were choices until it was too late.

2. History 131 was much more interesting when your teacher was an Immortal.

3. Watch enough movies and you think fantasy worlds are full of horse-equivalents and pseudo-dragons, when in fact the most common recognizable critters are rats.

4. “Think of it as practice for saving the world!”

5. Sometimes I think life is defined by the distance between what you want and what you need.

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1. In theory it should have hit her when she actually left, but she found herself staring at the suitcase, half packed with memories, and facing the full brunt of her decision.

2. Night rolls in, a stark line of shadow where the world shade blocks the sun.

3. “Have you ever noticed how nothing ever turns out how you expect?”

“Well yeah, but that’s life, right?”

“No, no it’s not.” Henry gave Evan a long look. “When I said nothing, I meant it literally. I can’t think of a single thing you’ve done that’s turned out the way you intended it to.”

“But it’s worked out in the end.”

“That’s not the point, no matter how bad your luck something should have gone right.” Henry frowned, “There’s something not right about you, but damned if I can figure it out.”

4. Another day gone, another shift ended, and all she can think about is how she’s going to make it to the pawnshop in time to get back her grandmother’s bracelet.

5. There’s something about losing your dreams that makes you stubborn– broken, empty, but full of fire against a world that’s turned from environment to antagonist. So she won’t die, not yet, not here, because then the planet wins. Seven generations of traveler blood won’t be denied the stars for long…

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1. Some choices are easy, like fudge ripple or butter pecan, some choices aren’t. Can you guess which one this was?

2. If you looked, you could find a narrow path, of sorts, twisting through the forest. Worn into the loam by kids or deer or kirin, it danced from rock to rock with an ease he had problems duplicating.

3. There was nothing quite as comforting as a good old fashioned mid-day nap.

4. Old City was technically neither old, nor a city, as it had been built less than a decade ago for a very specific non-urban purpose. Of course that hadn’t stopped the refugees from turning it into habitable space as soon as the apocalypse was over.

5. Choosing a magical companion animal wasn’t something one undertook lightly, after all choosing the wrong pet could absolutely ruin your chances at getting an invitation to the ball…

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1. Life is a series of moments, not regrets.

2. The problem with humans in the Pegasus Galaxy boiled down to the fact they weren’t human. Biology only buys you so much, and that’s something they should have learned back on Earth.

3. It was a common story, a spaceship flung off course, its crew doomed to wander an alien galaxy alone… only that had been their goal, so Trish never really understood why every one complained.

4. The problem with being immortal was that you got really tired of death.

5. It was a stupid quest, but she had the afternoon off and she was tired of studying. “A rouge werewolf playing havoc with the fine citizenry of Venn Hall?” She flung the textbook onto the bed with an overly dramatic flourish. “Why lead on McFluff! I follow!” The unicorn sighed and wondered for the umpteenth time if there wasn’t a loophole in the contract he’d overlooked.

6. The pain wasn’t like a knife, or like fire, or ice, or any of a thousand other metaphors. It was pain and it drowned out the world in a white flash of sensation.

7. “He made his choice.”
“No he didn’t. He made a mistake John, a simple stupid everyday mistake. You made a choice.”

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