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  • #1
    J.K. Franko
    “See, the things we do, everything—the universe is watching. Good and bad. And that motherfucker is making a list like a goddammed accountant. And, in the end, all the accounts have to balance.”
    J.K. Franko, Tooth for Tooth

  • #2
    Isham Cook
    “But the outcome was inevitable: she assumed you would not take no for an answer; she could already see your charming smile morph into the grimace of a rabid dog. To”
    Isham Cook, Lust and Philosophy

  • #3
    Robyn Mundell
    “Right? I don’t know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn’t help yourself?”
    Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

  • #4
    John M. Vermillion
    “A detective in love with a breathtakingly beautiful stripper, who also is a major criminal: “Among her coterie of supplicants was Joe Fucci, a senior detective on the Laughlin force. Joe regarded himself as handsome, and he was. If he went without shaving for three days, a John Deere was required to cut through the growth. No electric razor created by man stood a chance in that tangle of growth.”
    John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

  • #5
    Michael Ende
    “Zaman yaşamın kendisiydi. Ve yaşamın yeri yürekti. İnsanlar zamandan tasarruf ettikçe, zaman azalıyordu.”
    Michael Ende, Momo
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  • #6
    Samuel Beckett
    “Yes, light, there is no other word for it.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #7
    Carl Sagan
    “The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #8
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “حالا می دید که خیلی از کارها را انجام می دهد صرفاً چون بهانه ای برای انجام ندادنشان ندارد.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

  • #9
    Hilary Mantel
    “You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’
    ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #10
    Jennifer Mugrage
    “They were so alone that they did not even need a name to call themselves by. They simply called themselves The People.
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    Jennifer Mugrage, The Strange Land

  • #11
    Katherine   Parker
    “This journey has taught me that we are, in essence, already whole. It is our limited perception which keeps us from experiencing this wholeness. As we expand and unify our perception, with the help of the Resonance Alchemy processes and Sacred Syllables, we re-member the greater wholeness that we are, and have been all along. In reclaiming our wholeness, we reclaim our sovereignty, the Divine One that is the core and essence of our being.”
    Katherine Parker, Resonance Alchemy: Awakening the Tree of Life

  • #12
    K.  Ritz
    “Stupid or no, Father, you’re dead – and I’m not.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #13
    Susan  Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #14
    Lin Wilder
    “Tipping her head back, he asked, “Do you trust me”
    Lin Wilder, Plausible Liars: A Dr. Lindsey McCall Medical Mystery 5

  • #15
    Jeff   Johns
    “The fantasy of living these experiences was one thing, but having the self-confidence to head out into the world and chase them, to take a great leap into the unknown and trust that the world would catch me, was another thing altogether.”
    Jeff Johns, Jet Lag Junkie: Unfiltered Tales of a Compulsive Wanderer

  • #16
    Max Nowaz
    “Somebody always had to pay, and he was glad it was not going to be him. Meanwhile he had managed to ruin the perfect marriage by turning Dick into a crayfish and making Rachael think that he had run off with another woman.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #17
    “Since there are many IE events in Madrid, networking opportunities abound”
    Pilar Calvoz Cordón, Shape Your Path at IE University : What to expect from Spain’s Instituto de Empresa University

  • #18
    Brian J. Twiddy
    “While Abigail showered, I retrieved my jacket and took the envelope out of my pocket. ‘Five days. if you play with matches, you will get burned”
    Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

  • #19
    “No matter what happens, it’s all for the best!”
    Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

  • #20
    “Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
    R.D. Ronald

  • #21
    O. Henry
    “Piggy needs but a word. When the girls named him, an undeserving stigma was cast upon the noble family of swine. The words-of-three-letters lesson in the old blue spelling book begins with Piggy’s biography. He was fat; he had the soul of a rat, the habits of a bat, and the magnanimity of a cat…. He”
    O. Henry, O. Henry: Complete Stories: Cabbages and Kings, Heart of the West, The Voice of the City, Rolling Stones... (Bauer Classics)

  • #22
    Dashiell Hammett
    “He stood beside the fireplace and looked at her with eyes that studied, weighed, judged her without pretense that they were not studying, weighing, judging her.”
    Dashiell Hammett, THE MALTESE FALCON

  • #23
    Primo Levi
    “But Gedalah had something in mind. He sent four men to collect a dozen pumpkins, and he had them set in the pylons that supported the overhead power line that ran the train, one pumpkin to each pylon.
    “What are they for?” Mendel asked.
    “Nothing,” Gedaleh said. “They’re there to make the Germans wonder why they’re there. We’ve wasted maybe two minutes; they’re methodical, they’ll waste a lot more.”
    Primo Levi, If Not Now, When?

  • #24
    Robert Musil
    “[Ulrich] richtete sich auf den Trümmern seiner Kindheit nicht ohne Schwierigkeiten ein, doch auch mit ein wenig angenehmen Gefühls, das wie Nebel aus diesem Boden aufstieg.”
    Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

  • #25
    Dan Simmons
    “This is where the Iliad begins, and it should be the focus of all my energies and professional skills, but the truth is that I don’t really give a shit.”
    Dan Simmons, Ilium

  • #26
    Kim Edwards
    “Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
    Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter



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