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quotes.push("&quot;I've discovered a secret to help me defeat my venerable adversary: my writer's block isn't an inside job--I'm really fighting an external foe. My creative ideas are being stolen. I still haven't figured out how, but I think I've found the culprit.&quot<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portblock.htm'>The Villainy of Writer's Block</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;For months now, I've fought a fierce, protracted battle with a long-time antagonist: Writer's Block. For me, it's much like trying to catch a mouse. My creativity hides in the walls, and only on occasion, I'll catch a glimpse, until its fickleness threatens to drive me mad.&quot<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portblock.htm'>The Villainy of Writer's Block</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;OH:...What's this contraption supposed to do?<br>EG:....It'll slowly lower you into a vat of lampreys.<br>OH:...Lampreys, huh? Not sharks?<br>EG:....Cliche is one thing, but sharks are passe.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portexp.htm'>The Experiment</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;EG:...I don't understand<br>OH:...You wouldn't.<br>EG:...Meaning what?<br>OH:...Well, people really aren't your forte.<br>EG:...Can't argue with you there.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portexp.htm'>The Experiment</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I wasn't dead five minutes before the problems began.  You see, Heaven isn't what you might expect.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portrun.htm'>Run For Your Afterlife</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;And I'm miserable up here.  It turns out I'm allergic to Angel's wings.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portrun.htm'>Run For Your Afterlife</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;My name is Basil.  You're probably thinking, <i>Basil, like dazzle? Is that British? How debonair</i>...I get that a lot.  Actually it's Basil, like the herb.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portrun.htm'>Run For Your Afterlife</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Ironic isn't it? Turns out knowing a woman in the biblical sense has nothing to do with the heavenly sense.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portrun.htm'>Run For Your Afterlife</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Now I know what you're probably thinking.  Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl shows boy the error of his ways and they live happily ever after.  Right? You watch too many movies.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portrun.htm'>Run For Your Afterlife</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I decided I needed to work a little harder at getting damned.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portrun.htm'>Run For Your Afterlife</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Who would have guessed Heaven had a prison?&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portrun.htm'>Run For Your Afterlife</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I have always painted the visions I have seen--the gifts of my Muse.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portborn.htm'>Born Again</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I never told anyone this, but the crimson blacks the critics raved about, the ones they said gave the gargoyle a palpable sense of fear...was dried blood.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portborn.htm'>Born Again</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;When I opened my eyes I saw a dark canvas violently streaked with red.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portborn.htm'>Born Again</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I worked long after my arms ached--long after the light bled from the sky.  When the canvas was almost black, and the room seemed unstable to my tired eyes, I heard the distant crying of a child.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portborn.htm'>Born Again</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Standing in the doorway was a frail shadow, its edges burned away by the fierce sunlight behind.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/porthand.htm'>The Hand You Are Dealt</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;The Tower was a card worth dreading. If The Tower had shown her the truth, then those scars on her wrists probably told a morbid history of Rowan's life.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/porthand.htm'>The Hand You Are Dealt</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Kendra bit her lip, and realized she didn't want to deal the last card. Regardless of the fact that the reading was bogus, the random flutterings of decorated paper, the woman across form her didn't deserve more pain.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/porthand.htm'>The Hand You Are Dealt</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;The light of Bode's sun dawned under the crescent of the dark side of the moon, and for one brilliant moment the razor edge of the crystalline mountains refracted the sun into an endless prism.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portfolio.html'>Re-Entry</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;So I waited. I waited while he checked the sensor logs. I waited while he arranged for a crew to come get me and the supplies. I think I waited while he balanced the base's annual budget, and presumably wrote a moderate-length novel. Did I mention I'm not a patient woman?&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portfolio.html'>Re-Entry</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Her eyes were shiny and wide, and I felt guilty for thinking how pretty they were.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portfolio.html'>Re-Entry</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I plopped down in front of the vid, and gave Jan one of those smiles you give when you've punched the wrong person in a bar brawl and need them to understand it was an accident.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portfolio.html'>Re-Entry</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Under more routine circumstances I would be merciless when faced with the culinary nightmare laid out in front of him. He had a taste for exocuisine, and I couldn't guess as to what he was eating. There was enough food in front of him to last me two days.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portfolio.html'>Re-Entry</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Admitting that Jan is right--about anything--ranks right up there with having to admit I'm wrong.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/portfolio.html'>Re-Entry</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;Catch-22s being the 3rd most prolific thing in the universe (1st is hydrogen, 2nd is stupidity)...&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=39'>Unsleepy Hollow</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;The blinking cursor sits atop a unmarred field of white. It's just sitting there, blinking at me, mocking me. Thus begins the writing process.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=37'>The Blank Page</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;When I see the blank page the writer in me sees all the promise--all the things that I could write. And I start to convince myself that I'm not a good enough writer to meet that challenge, that no one really cares to read what I write anyway.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=37'>The Blank Page</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I will not join any organization whose primary AND stated goal is dominion or destruction of the world, galaxy or universe.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=36'>My Anti-Resolutions</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;If Santa doesn't show up at your house tonight, I apologize. It's my fault...&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=32'>If Santa Doesn't Show</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;When I wrote these stories, I remember liking them. And other people told me they liked them, as well. Now I read them and cringe.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=14'>Did I Actually Write That?</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;The world is coming to an end. I'm convinced of it. I have seen the First Horsemen.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=45'>Sign of the Apocalypse</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;I now know that living with a loved one who has asthma is about ten times worse than having it yourself.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=42'>Deep Breaths</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;We all remember where we were, and it changed the way we saw the world. The world was suddenly more dangerous, more painfully ironic. Our people and heroes more fragile, more mortal.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=51'>Where Were You?</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
quotes.push("&quot;There are certain moments so powerful, so painful, so beautiful, that everything about them is indelibly burned into our memories, that change the way we see things, that define who we are.&quot;<br><br><a href='http://www.dcroe.com/blog/?p=51'>Where Were You?</a><br>D. Challener Roe");
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