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  • #1
    J.K. Franko
    “Outlier complacency' is a heuristic that allows a person to enjoy the thrill of danger associated with the possible negative outcome of an activity or event because they take comfort in the reality that the likelihood of an actual negative outcome is statistically low.”
    J.K. Franko

  • #2
    S.G. Blaise
    “You are so much like your mother. Stubborn and relentless when you’re focused on something.”
    S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

  • #3
    Deborah Leblanc
    “Who's the young man beside you?" Helen suddenly asked. "Oh, I see, you're one of us." She turned to Nonie. "And you did introduce us before." She tapped a finger against her right temple. "Every once in a while this old clock up here forgets to click to the next second. I apologize for that.”
    Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

  • #4
    Lee Matthew Goldberg
    “Under the lake by Anvil Creek, a man has been frozen much like another man in the same wilderness had been frozen, in this area of Alaska where silence is the loudest sound.”
    Lee Matthew Goldberg, The Ancestor

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Steve  Bates
    “I wasn’t born yesterday. Or was I? All this time travel gets me so confused.”
    Steve Bates, Back To You

  • #7
    Jack Getze
    “Daylight streamed in the hospital windows, warming my spirits. Only darkness had existed while being born: Never before had I personally witnessed the startling difference between night and day.”
    Jack Getze, Making Hearts

  • #8
    Alan Weisman
    “We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.”
    Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

  • #9
    Suzanne Collins
    “Katniss, the girl who was on fire!”
    Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

  • #10
    Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
    “know that the goal is not to get entangled in the world, but to use the world to reach Divinity.”
    The Bhagavad Gita

  • #11
    Sophocles
    “إن الرياح المعاكسة لا تثني القراصنة عن الإبحار عندما تتاح أمامهم الفرصة للسرقة والنهب.”
    Sophocles, فيلوكتيتس

  • #12
    Philip Pullman
    “Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #13
    Carson McCullers
    “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known”
    Carson McCullers



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