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  • #1
    Deborah Leblanc
    “Oh, uh-uh," Shaundelle said. "I'm not gonna be no place where no ghost is gonna be knockin' nobody upside the head. I'm outta here. I'm not going to take any chances that some ghost is gonna mess up this pretty face.”
    Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe

  • #2
    “In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears, and questions and kept them safe until Mary was older and mature enough to process the abuse and neglect she had endured.”
    Maria Nhambu

  • #3
    Leslie  Garland
    “Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
    Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

  • #4
    Matthew Bracey
    “Christ, did life get any worse than this? He pushed the head of the cock past his terrified, quivering lips and attempted to bite into the thing.”
    Matthew Bracey, Steel Dogs

  • #5
    Mark M. Bello
    “She was right to be angry. He did violate every condition she placed on the resolution of the case. He never thought she was serious. But she was, and his blunder was going to cost him the case of a lifetime. I can do this her way! If she wants the case to be public, then public it shall be! If she wants to turn down $1.1 million, I'll get her $2 million—whatever she wants! I have to convince her!”
    Mark M. Bello, Betrayal of Faith

  • #6
    Andrea Luhman
    “It's not the answer you wanted to hear," Pha said.
    "It's the truth," Katrina said stepping onto the walk leading to the back door. "The truth's better than hearing nothing.”
    Andrea Luhman, Missing Wings

  • #7
    Stephen Crane
    “He reflected that when one gets properly wearied, drowning must really be a comfortable arrangement, a cessation of hostilities accompanied by a large degree of relief, and he was glad of it, for the main thing in his mind for some months had been horror of the temporary agony. He did not wish to be hurt.”
    Stephen Crane, Open Boat

  • #8
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

  • #9
    Harold Bloom
    “Hope and joy, however irrational, are stronger than dispair, and ultimately more pernicious.”
    Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why

  • #10
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #11
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

  • #12
    Oliver Sacks
    “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
    Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

  • #13
    “It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean less hurried encounters and more humane interactions, including more empathy from happier doctors. This is important because empathy has been shown to improve outcomes by boosting patient adherence to the prescribed treatments, increasing motivation, and reducing anxiety and stress.”
    Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

  • #14
    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “I’ll say, G’day to you, Mr. Ryan!” Catherine said as she quickly closed the door in his face. “Oh, the arrogance,” she growled under her breath, leaning her back up against the closed door. “He thinks he’s so irresistible with his rugged good looks and sexy accent.”

    “I’m standing right here, and I can hear you!” came Jake’s muffled words from the other side of the door. “Oh, c’mon love. I’m sorry. I didn’t realize I was offending you.”
    Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

  • #15
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “They don't know what a stand up guy you are." 
    "Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #16
    Yvonne Korshak
    “My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    K.  Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #19
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #20
    Pearl S. Buck
    “there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The”
    Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

  • #21
    Umberto Eco
    “True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then a place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #22
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    “Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances. None of us know what a year may bring forth.”
    Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

  • #23
    Heath Sommer
    “You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
    Heath Sommer

  • #24
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides



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