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  • #1
    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #2
    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #3
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “Joey was quiet, but finally he said, “This is going to sound really weird . . .”
     
    Alice encouraged him by saying, “I love weird.”
     
    Joey went on, feeling a little better. “One day when I was in the woods by the stream, I heard a voice . . .,” and the whole story tumbled out.”
    Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

  • #4
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Truthfully, Professor Hawking? Why would we allow tourists from the future muck up the past when your contemporaries had the task well in Hand?"
    Brigadier General Patrick E Buckwalder 2241C.E.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence

  • #5
    “Be tough as a wolf lest wolves eat you.”
    Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

  • #6
    C. Toni Graham
    “Do not get discouraged. Don’t shrug off your dreams because of the setbacks. Aspirations are not like perspiration, they will not evaporate unless you allow it.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #7
    “If you want to be great, you have to be a leader. You’ve got to listen to me, son. That’s what we brought you here to do, to be a leader. And you can do it.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #8
    Lotchie Burton
    “There’s no point in fighting me on this. Wherever you go, one, or both of us will be with you. Period. Get used to it. Short of actually sleeping on your doorstep, I’m going to follow you everywhere. I’m going to be so close that if you turn your head for a breath I’ll be there to give you mouth-to-mouth. So, you may as well just give in and take me with you. It’ll save us both a lot of time and frustration.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #9
    “Serving” is assisting your fellow man, the how-to, practical way to thrust your life into the spiritual wall to make the
tunnel bigger. Will God suddenly appear? Does
washing stacks of pots and pans bring salvation?
    Can pulling weeds reclaim your brain? Will mopping the floor make you equal to the richest of men?”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #10
    Jon Krakauer
    “At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts. I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn't resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink. The hint of what was concealed in those shadows terrified me, but I caught sight of something in the glimpse, some forbidden and elemental riddle that was no less compelling than the sweet, hidden petals of a woman's sex.
    In my case - and, I believe, in the case of Chris McCandless - that was a very different thing from wanting to die.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #11
    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, and forgetting takes so long.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • #12
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #13
    Homer
    “we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.”
    Homer, The Iliad

  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #15
    Gary Paulsen
    “If you look at it from the right point of view, lying is just good manners.”
    Gary Paulsen, Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Deception



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