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  • #1
    Steve Snyder
    “It Is Our Duty To Remember”
    Steve Snyder, Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth

  • #2
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
    He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
    Kirsten Fullmer

  • #3
    Emem Uko
    “It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.”
    Emem Uko

  • #4
    Sophie Kinsella
    “Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace”
    Sophie Kinsella

  • #5
    Cynthia Hand
    “I can't stop thinking about how much better she'd be for him than I am.
    But I also kind of want to tear her hair out.”
    Cynthia Hand, Boundless

  • #6
    Meg Cabot
    “Chaz looks me dead in the eye and says, 'Why yes, Lizzie. I’m manically depressed because the girl I’ve finally realized I’ve always been in love with, and who I was beginning to think just might love me back, turned around and got herself engaged to my best friend, who, frankly, doesn’t deserve her. Does that answer your question?”
    Meg Cabot

  • #7
    Peter B. Forster
    “I hope these words will be of some help and comfort to those who read them.
    Nobody knows when they will be tested and there are no right or wrong answers, we are all of us lost when tragedy comes to call. All we can ever do is to be there, give love and do the best we can, often that is all it needs.”
    Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

  • #8
    Andrea Luhman
    “It's not the answer you wanted to hear," Pha said.
    "It's the truth," Katrina said stepping onto the walk leading to the back door. "The truth's better than hearing nothing.”
    Andrea Luhman, Missing Wings

  • #9
    Matthew Bracey
    “It didn’t take him thirty seconds to have a swig of vodka and a hefty sniff before his hands were as steady as a bloke with his bollocks caught in a zip”
    Matthew Bracey, Steel Dogs

  • #10
    Deborah Leblanc
    “Jack couldn't help but watch Nonie as she left. She looked to be twenty-nine, thirty at the most, stood maybe five foot-four and was slender. She had shoulder-length, curly, walnut-colored hair and the largest most beautiful blue eyes he'd ever seem Her nose and ears were small in comparison to her full lips, which he'd give anything to kiss.”
    Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

  • #11
    Daniel Mangena
    “Nothing lasts beyond the present moment unless we carry it with us”
    Daniel Mangena

  • #12
    Gayle Forman
    “I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia”
    Gayle Forman, Where She Went

  • #13
    David Foster Wallace
    “The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? . . . From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. . . Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.”
    Tenzin Gyatso the fourteenth Dalai Lama

  • #16
    John Bunyan
    “I thought I might now have an opportunity to speak my last words to a multitude, which I thought would come to see me die; and, thought I, if it must be so, if God will but convert one soul by my very last words, I shall not count my life thrown away, nor lost.”
    John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

  • #17
    Michael              Parker
    “Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
    Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

  • #18
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Look at that! The entire Australian kit dates from the 1940s and the uniforms are falling apart at the seams, the fucking boots you have issued to us are the same and everything is rotten. As for bloody weapons, we are issued with the Owen sub-machine gun. While the gun is still a very good weapon, the 9mm ammunition it uses is old WW2 stock and its propellants have deteriorated to the point where I doubt if the round will penetrate the back-pack of a fleeing Noggie!”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

  • #19
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #20
    Władysław Szpilman
    “The life of a human being, let alone his personal freedom, is a matter of no importance. But the love of freedom is native to every human being and every nation, and cannot be suppressed in the long term. History teaches us that tyranny has never endured. And now we have blood-guilt on our conscience for the dreadful injustice of murdering the Jewish inhabitants.”
    Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45

  • #21
    Wallace Stegner
    “The wicked and the unhappy always stole the show because sin and suffering were the most universal human experiences.”
    Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

  • #22
    Mark Helprin
    “Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.”
    Mark Helprin, Ellis Island And Other Stories: Prize-Winning Short Stories and Novella – Literary Masterpiece

  • #23
    Ralph Ellison
    “We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture. Why waste time creating a conscience for something that doesn't exist? For, you see, blood and skin do not think!”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #24
    Max Brooks
    “Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.”
    Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

  • #25
    Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
    “Diocesan exams are given at the end of March to students in Catholic schools throughout Massachusetts from the fourth to the twelfth grade. You have to answer four out of seven essay questions. A typical question goes something like this: Theologians speculate about whether Christ actually appeared to His disciples after He rose from the dead. Is the scripture clear on this? Discuss, with reference to the different gospels and their variations, and to different theological interpretations”
    Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood



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