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  • #1
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Mycelium?” Joey asked. “What is that?”
     
    Water explained, “It is a huge organism made up of very, very small fibres or filaments of fungus. The fungus grows underground, and it connects all the roots of the trees together. Its flower is a mushroom. Do you like to eat mushrooms?”
    Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

  • #2
    “Hours passed—or maybe days. It didn’t matter. The body adapted. But the mind—
    The mind needed purpose.
          ”
    D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

  • #3
    “(there is no pepper on the table; evidently pepper perks the libido),”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #4
    Tricia Copeland
    “Your wish, my Qu—”
I press my finger to his lips. “Let us race.”
“You will not win.” Holden grabs my wrist and kisses it.”
    Tricia Copeland, To be a Fae Guardian

  • #5
    J. Rose Black
    “Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
    J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

  • #6
    “The wilderness is uncomfortable, pushes your limits and is unavoidable.”
    Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles

  • #7
    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #8
    “Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #9
    K.  Ritz
    “Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #10
    George Eliot
    “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
    George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

  • #11
    Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
    “Left to itself, the mind goes on repeating the same old habitual patterns of personality. By training the mind, however, anyone can learn to step in and change old ways of thinking; that is the central principle of yoga:”
    Veda Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

  • #12
    Jane Austen
    “One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #13
    Charles Dickens
    “I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #14
    Roald Dahl
    “The little pig began to pray
    But Wolfie blew his house away.
    He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham!
    Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"
    And though he ate the pig quite fast,
    He carefully kept the tail till last.”
    Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes

  • #15
    Irving Stone
    “Alla guerra di amor vince chi fugge.”
    Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
    tags: love



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