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  • #1
    Marie Montine
    “Never say that you’re useless! I’ve seen more courage tonight from you than I have ever seen in someone in my entire life; you were ready to fight those Kins to certain death! Now get up!”
    Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

  • #2
    Daniel Mangena
    “Love wins… If we let it”
    Daniel Mangena

  • #3
    Barry Kirwan
    “next”
    Barry Kirwan, Eden's Trial

  • #4
    Steve  Pemberton
    “But it is when the storm rages that we fully understand the courage the lighthouse represents. When the sea becomes a tempestuous beast, the lighthouse transforms to an urgent beacon signaling the way toward shelter, courageously defying the elements.”
    Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

  • #5
    Spencer C Demetros
    “I’m not sure what made me think God would choose to reveal himself to little ol’ me. I think I believed that if I pleaded often and hard enough, he would see how sincere I was and grant my request, kind of like Linus and the Great Pumpkin. My sincerity would win him over so he would choose my pumpkin patch -- or, in this case, my bedroom -- to make a brief personal appearance. Unfortunately, that never happened.”
    Spencer C Demetros, The Bible: Enter Here: Bringing God's Word to Life for Today's Teens

  • #6
    Behcet Kaya
    “It was easy to make the obvious leap that the money was supposed to be my fee for whatever Lillian Holler wanted to expose. Sometimes my clients come with prepayment. I still questioned why she had picked me and how she had found me. But she was a wealthy woman and wealthy women have ways of finding out whatever it is they want to know.”
    Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

  • #7
    John Fowles
    “Victims?"
    "Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice."
    "That sounds like an excellent definition of man.”
    John Fowles The Magus

  • #8
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “With this purpose, the author chose for the subject of his story a woman named Catherine Hayes, who was burned at Tyburn, in 1726, for the deliberate murder of her husband, under very revolting circumstances. Mr. Thackeray’s aim obviously was to describe the career of this wretched woman and her associates with such fidelity to truth as to exhibit the danger and folly of investing such persons with heroic and romantic qualities.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray, Delphi Complete Works of W. M. Thackeray

  • #9
    Ken Follett
    “She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”
    Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth

  • #10
    Italo Calvino
    “Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.”
    Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

  • #11
    Ursula Hegi
    “The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”
    Ursula Hegi, Children and Fire



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