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  • #1
    Pernell Plath Meier
    “Embedded in their psyche was the story of what had happened to the world, and the boys felt glorious to be on the other side of the madness”
    Pernell Plath Meier, In Our Bones

  • #2
    Ki Longfellow
    “Life is still an unfolding,the farther we travel the more truth we can comprehend, and to understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.”
    Ki Longfellow

  • #3
    Lemony Snicket
    “I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
    tags: love

  • #4
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”
    Alexis de Tocqueville

  • #5
    Eckhart Tolle
    “To know another human being in their essence, you don't really need to know anything about them — their past, their history, their story.”
    Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

  • #6
    “Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #7
    David Guterson
    “Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s a difference between the two. It’s fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there’s difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It’s inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It’s part of the definition of the work.”
    David Guterson

  • #8
    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #9
    Max Nowaz
    “If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
    Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

  • #10
    Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin
    “There’s no such thing as ‘settling down’ when you get married. Getting married is the most unsettling thing one can ever do.”
    Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures

  • #11
    K.  Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #12
    William Kely McClung
    “What the fuck were you supposed to think about to take your mind off what was happening? Maybe stop signs. No, everybody knew stop signs were erotic. Red lights. But weren’t those supposed to represent hookers? Green lights. Green for go… wrong thing. The problem was, when you were nineteen, blessed to be healthy, a seriously good looking athlete, and had the hottest chick in the school working her magic, everything was a turn-on.”
    William Kely McClung, LOOP

  • #13
    Victoria Dougherty
    “Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.”
    Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

  • #14
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
    Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

  • #15
    Jules Verne
    “The unforeseen does not exist,”
    Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

  • #16
    Michael Ondaatje
    “American movies, English books - remember how they all end?" Gamini asked that night. "The American or the Englishman gets on a plane and leaves. That's it. The camera leaves with him. He looks out of the window at Mombasa or Vietnam or Jakarta, someplace now he can look at through the clouds. The tired hero. A couple of words to the girl beside him. He's going home. So the war, to all purposes, is over. That's enough reality for the West. It's probably the history of the last two hundred years of Western political writing. Go home. Write a book. Hit the circuit.”
    Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost

  • #17
    Kathryn Stockett
    “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
    Kathryn Stockett, The Help

  • #18
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.”
    Kurt Vonnegut



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