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  • #1
    Sara Pascoe
    “When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #2
    Therisa Peimer
    “I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #3
    K.  Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #4
    James Frey
    “There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”
    James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

  • #5
    Kate Chopin
    “I know I shall like it, like the feeling of freedom and independence.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening & Other Short Stories

  • #6
    Jeannette Walls
    “Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.”
    Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

  • #7
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Tenderly he reached for her and lightly took her hand, lifted it, and touched it to his lips.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #8
    “The violence of nature masks the beauty and joy that hide just beneath the surface.”
    Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel

  • #9
    Lesley Glaister
    “Neville's a pleasant sort of standby when there's nothing more exciting on the go. A safe, attractive, reliable chap. He's respectful, never having tried to get her into bed which, if she was a better sort of person, she might appreciate.”
    Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

  • #10
    Sara Pascoe
    “It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #11
    “Our experiences are all a result of our personal energy signature, which develops from our focus of attention. Once we realize this, we can create a world of light and love in our personal consciousness, which also flows into the consciousness of humanity and the entire cosmos.”
    Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

  • #12
    Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
    “How power is used in organizations determines whether it unites us with trust or divides us with fear”
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

  • #13
    Kim Edwards
    “He liked that bones were solid things, surviving even the white heat of cremation. Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable.”
    Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

  • #14
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.”
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

  • #15
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “Islamic scholars developed a doctrine known as “abrogation” (an-Nasikh wa’l Mansukh), whereby Allah issues new revelations that supersede old ones.”
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #17
    Elizabeth George Speare
    “A sudden joyful hope sprang into Mart’s mind.”
    Elizabeth George Speare, The Sign of the Beaver

  • #18
    Nancy E. Turner
    “How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?”
    Nancy E. Turner



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