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  • #1
    M.R. Noble
    “The usual warmth of his hands wasn’t there. They chilled my skin as they slipped to my waist, and I realized he was scared.”
    M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

  • #2
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
    He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
    Kirsten Fullmer

  • #3
    Marcel Proust
    “A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.”
    Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained

  • #4
    “Laketon Elementary School was in the middle of a medium-size town in the middle of New Jersey. There was a reason Dave was in the middle of his fourth hour of not talking, but this isn’t the time to tell about that. This is the time to tell what he figured out in the middle of his social studies class.”
    Andrew Clements, No Talking

  • #5
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #6
    Benjamin Franklin
    “A man of words and not of deeds,
    Is like a garden full of weeds.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

  • #7
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #8
    Lynne Truss
    “We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.”
    Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

  • #9
    Voltaire
    “إنهم لا يضحكون ابتهاجاً وإنما تفادياً للانتحار”
    فولتير

  • #10
    Richard Matheson
    “There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.”
    Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
    tags: love

  • #11
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #12
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Everyone always has to have the rational, scientific explanation for something, even if it's so obviously wrong you could scream.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Deep Secret

  • #13
    Lawrence Hill
    “I ain’t need no proof of puberty at fucking six o'clock on a Wednesday morning.”
    Lawrence Hill, The Illegal

  • #14
    William Gibson
    “Hollis blew gently on the thin tan island of foam afloat in her half pint of Guinness, to see it move, then drank some. Always a mysterious beverage to her. Unsure why she’d asked for it. She liked the way it looked more than how it tasted. How would it taste, she wondered, if it tasted the way she thought it looked? No idea.”
    William Gibson, Zero History

  • #15
    “I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #17
    William Faulkner
    “It's because I'm alone.. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. But if I were not alone, everybody would know it. And he could do so much for me, and then I would not be alone. Then I could be all right alone.”
    William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

  • #18
    “Philip had arguably created the first nation-state in Europe, with a population of perhaps a million. He would next create Europe’s first empire.”
    Robin Waterfield, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece

  • #19
    Brandon Sanderson
    “You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #20
    Tim Butcher
    “As my history teachers drilled into me, the First World War provided the preconditions for the Second World War and thereby the tension of the Cold War. The war of 1914–18 was Ground Zero for modern history, the end of an old order that had held sway for hundreds of years, the fiery forging of a new world.”
    Tim Butcher, The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

  • #21
    Chaim Potok
    “I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.”
    Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
    tags: art

  • #22
    Angie Thomas
    “Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.’” I raise my eyebrows. “What?” “Listen! The Hate U—the letter U—Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody. T-H-U-G L-I-F-E. Meaning what society give us as youth, it bites them in the ass when we wild out. Get it?” “Damn. Yeah.”
    Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

  • #23
    David Foster Wallace
    “There is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #24
    Jeffrey Archer
    “diffident”
    Jeffrey Archer, Kane and Abel

  • #25
    Therisa Peimer
    “Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #26
    Sara Pascoe
    “And she was right. No matter how they tried, the two humans, with the cat but without the microchip, couldn’t connect to headquarters. Raya heard a loud popping sound in her mind, like a huge rubber band being snapped, like a glider plane released from a Piper Cub.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #27
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #28
    James Dashner
    “He whipped out his sheet, then pulled it over himself and wrapped it tightly around his face like an old woman in a shawl.
    'How do I look?'
    'Like the ugliest shanky girl I’ve ever seen,' Minho responded. 'You better thank the gods above you were born a dude.'
    'Thanks.”
    James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

  • #29
    M.L. Stedman
    “The town draws a veil over certain events. This is a small community where everyone knows that sometimes the contract to forget is as important as any promise to remember. Children can grow up having no knowledge of the indiscretion of their father in his youth or the illegitimate sibling who lives fifty miles away and bears another man’s name. History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent. That’s how life goes on; protected by the silence that anaesthetises shame.”
    M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

  • #30
    Miguel Ruiz
    “People who love us do black magic on us, but they don’t know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don’t know what they do.”
    Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom



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