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  • #1
    “Being tall and in a scarlet SIB uniform I looked as incongruous as a sunflower in a cabbage field”
    Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

  • #2
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Joey was lying by the stream one afternoon after a hard day. He had been in trouble at school because he had left his homework at home. He had done the work, but his teacher didn’t believe him that he had completed it. Joey was still a bit upset with his teacher.
     
    Suddenly, he heard a very soft voice say, “Hello.”
     
    Joey sat up and looked around, but he couldn’t see anyone. So, he laid back down by the stream only to hear the voice again.
     
    The voice sounded bubbly and a little like running water. Joey didn’t know where it was coming from.”
    Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

  • #3
    “Succeeding in life is about having that onetime urgency to go for it.”
    Vernon Davis

  • #4
    “Everyone is ready for the end of the day, ten-minute group meditation. The meditation is like the iciest beer you have ever
had after a hard day’s work.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #5
    Michael G. Kramer
    “As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning blow!” (Giap, 1990)”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

  • #6
    C. Toni Graham
    “Today is the day you choose to find joy, fulfillment and the path that will make your heart sing. It's your choice, never lose sight of that.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #7
    Margarita Barresi
    “Enraged, Marco paced back and forth, gripping the newspaper in his fist. What do these animals hope to accomplish with senseless violence? We have enough suffering on this island. Do we have to kill each other, too?”
    Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

  • #8
    Alyssa Hall
    “I can’t get forensics over here to dig up the yard because my friend here, and her dog, didn’t hear a single thing. I don’t think they’ll go for it, Valerie.”
    Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

  • #9
    Sara Pascoe
    “She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #10
    Jasper Fforde
    “I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.”
    Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

  • #11
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #12
    Edward Abbey
    “The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.”
    Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

  • #13
    Daniel Defoe
    “to think that this was all my own; that I was king and lord of all this country indefensibly, and had a right of possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in inheritance as completely as any lord of a manor in England.”
    Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

  • #14
    Frederick Forsyth
    “A professional does not act out of fervour, and is therefore more calm and less likely to make elementary errors. Not being idealistic he is not likely to have second thoughts at the last minute about who else might get hurt in the explosion, or whatever method, and being a professional he has calculated the risks to the last contingency. So his chances of success on schedule are surer than anyone else, but he will not even enter into operation until he has devised a plan that will enable him not only to complete the mission, but to escape unharmed.”
    Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal



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