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Evan Meekins

My name's Evan, a college student currently enrolled as a Physics Major and an English Minor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg Virginia, though my home will always be in Virginia Beach. I am currently writing a series of fantasy fiction novels, the first is "The Black Banner", which all revolve around the fictional land of Verden and will span a good number of books. "The Black Banner" is my first book, and I encourage fans of fantasy fiction and those new or unfamiliar to the genre to give it a good read! I truly appreciate the support of the reading community, and I hope to visit any communities with a strong fan base so I can actually meet the people who read my work and just say thanks for the support!

On a more personal, yet somewhat quirky note; I love reading on the beach (even with the tourists), listening to classical while I write, singing the Beatles whilst walking through the woods, and cooking for my loving, supportive family. Maybe I'll write a cookbook after I'm fictioned out of ideas, but that won't be for a while, trust me.

To read more, visit the official author website: http://www.evanmeekins.com/


“While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.”
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“Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.”
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“We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.”
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“Hate did not give way to heroism.”
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“Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.”
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“A true leader is not meant to be greeted with unanimous praise by his people. A leader is meant to be questioned, to be suspect, to be hated. If he is not, then one can easily assume that either he has not challenged his abilities as a leader by making a decision that creates a split between the people, or he is forcing his subjects to bow before him.”
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“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.”
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“Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.”
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“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.”
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“We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.”
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“a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.”
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“With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.”
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“Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.”
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“War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.”
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“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.”
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“Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.”
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“Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.”
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“there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done”
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“There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong”
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“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.”
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“Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library”
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“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.”
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“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence.”
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“He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.”
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“They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits”
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“Do not forget about the butterflies.”
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“Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart were able to tell the two apart. That kind of justice was swift. It was only called upon afer mercy and morals fail. It was the darkest form of goodness known to anyone, even the gods, and required only the strongest, most daring men to bring about.”
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“The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.”
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“Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all accounts, damned idea.”
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“It had become their creation, and they all would know it.”
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