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Always with a notebook in hand growing up, everyone insisted that Bryen should become a writer. She refused. She wanted a “real” job— which by her teenaged definition, was a job that required a business suit. So she went on to study International Relations, interned at the Department of State and moved to the District of Columbia (a beautiful old apartment a few streets behind the Capitol) and got an 8 – 5. She even had to ride the metro to work! For a girl from rural Ohio, this was big city life! It didn't take long for the commute, the suit, and the hours to make her wonder what was so terrible about a job which could be done at home in pajamas and Bryen began to reconsider writing.

Her first foray into writing came in 2003 in the form of ...more

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	The Stone (Chronicles of Quat, #1) 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gryphon (The Chronicles of Quat Book 2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Gryhpon is Available!

The second book in The Chronicles of Quat series is now available for purchase!

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Bryen’s Quotes

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

tags: cowardice, fighting, renaissance-man, thinking, well-roundedness

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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