He looked very small atop the horse. For the first time, she saw him for what he was: not a fearsome shaman, not a mysterious Seer, but just a boy, really. She’d always thought Chaghan so ethereally powerful, so detached from the realm of mortals. But he was human after all, smaller and thinner than the rest of them.
"She’d excited him, challenged him, and made him human again after he’d spent so much time shutting out anything that made him feel"
When you push the boundaries, a lot of it is just probing. It has to be inefficient," Casadevall told me. "What's gone totally is that time to talk and synthesize. People grab lunch and bring it into their offices. They feel lunch is inefficient, but often that's the best time to bounce ideas and make connections."
When engineer Bill Gore left DuPont to form the company that in- vented Gore-Tex, he fashioned it after his observation that companies do their most impactful creative work in a crisis, because the disciplin- ary boundaries fly out the window. "Communication really happens in the carpool," he once said. He made sure that "dabble time" was a cultural staple.
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The group tracked the impact of research papers over time. They saw that papers with new knowledge combinations were more likely to be published in less prestigious journals, and also much more likely to be ignored upon publication. They got off to a slow start in the world, but after three years, the papers with new knowledge combos surpassed the conventional papers, and began accumulating more citations from other scientists. Fifteen years after publication, studies that made multiple new knowledge combinations were way more likely to be in the top 1 percent of most-cited papers.
To recap: work that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowl- edge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be a smash hit in the library of human knowledge.
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A seven year and two month old female patient was brought by her mother to the outpatient clinic of child psychiatry with a complaint of stretching by flexing the legs and rubbing on objects. According to the information acquired from the mother, this behaviour started first when she was 3 years of age. Previously, she was rubbing on her bed and
A race that has fled its generations from city to city has not found the necessary time for the accumulation of that toughness which produces ribaldry, nor, after the crucifixion of its ideas, enough forgetfulness in twenty centuries to create legend.
"When I was young, I used to lie here some nights after a training session, and I wanted to die."
He continued, his finger drawing loops on her back. "There was always a gun in the drawer, and I almost ended it some days. You know what stopped me every time?"
Morana shook her head.
"Thinking my sister would always wonder why her brother didn't love her enough to live for her. I couldn't leave her with that."
And she couldn’t believe, not after the honesty she had witnessed in his eyes, time after time - about his lust, his hatred, even his pain - that he hadn’t changed somewhere too. While the boy he’d been might want her life, might still want to hold on to the debt in his mind, the man he was only wanted her.
That was his weakness.
He wanted her and he'd made it obvious. He wanted her and that was the reason she was still alive. He wanted her and that was why he'd protected her, sheltered her, saved her, time after time, from her own father.
This want was his weakness.
“I want to erase every moment you and I have spent together, every word you’ve said to me, and every time I’ve touched you, because if I don’t, I’ll kill you, just like I killed the Fox.”
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“Would you be jealous if I did?”
𝐼'𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑗𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 was what Evangeline intended to say, but instead the words “Of course” came out.
Jacks laughed, louder this time.
Embarrassment surged through her. “That’s not what I meant to say.”
“It’s all right. I’d probably kill another man if I found him with you like this.”
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“I’m sorry,” I whisper, kissing around the plaster over and over, “So sorry.”
And it’s not only because I couldn’t save him in time.
I’m sorry about being a coward who can’t kiss him in public but hungers for him in private.
I’m sorry that I retreated after he ended things when I should’ve fought for him.
But most of all, I’m sorry that he even wants me.
“That is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.”
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. “There is
nothing of equal value to me.”
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SHE IS SO IN LOVE WITH HIM
She knew Jacks was far too dangerous a person to truly fall for. But she could no longer deny that it was happening. She couldn’t deny that she wanted him. Just enough to keep her from pulling away every time he touched her. Enough to keep his name near the tip of her tongue even when he wasn’t in the room. The physical attraction had always been there, but her pull toward him had been increasing ever since the night they’d jumped off that cliff together.
Because she’d never actually stopped falling.
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