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“Next thing I remember was waking up on swampy ground and it was beginning to spit rain. I had no clue where I was, but I was hurting like hell. It was hard to take a breath; probably a broken rib or two? I felt around. My gun and knife were gone, along with my shoes and jacket with my cell phone, driver’s license, and two-thousand in cash.”
― Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

“Time was not on their side, it was the enemy.”
― C. Toni Graham, Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals

“It is often only when we have the occasion to taste, once again, that which we have lost, that the floodgates open and we are undefendably, confronted with the full experience of the loss."

From The Island of Serenity, Book 1, Survival, new edition”
― Gary Edward Gedall, Survival

“These enquiries of mine, then, clearly show that Heracles is an ancient god. So I think those Greeks did just right who established two kinds of cult for Heracles, in one of which they sacrifice to Heracles as an immortal god—Olympian Heracles, as he is known—while in the other they make offerings to him as a hero.”
― Robin A.H. Waterfield, The Histories

“Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Ecco, pensò Amerigo, quei due, così come sono, sono reciprocamente necessari. E pensò: ecco, questo modo d'essere è l'amore. E poi: l'umano arriva dove arriva l'amore; non ha confini se non quelli che gli diamo.”
― Italo Calvino, La giornata d'uno scrutatore

“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Not only do textbooks fail to blame the federal government for its opposition to the civil rights movement, many actually credit the government, almost single-handedly, for the advances made during the period.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― victor hugos, Les Misérables