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“The anti-aging spell he used every month kept him alive for the most part. Facially, he looked like a forty-five year old; physically, he was a wreck because the spell was defective. All his teeth had fallen out years ago and he now used a set of ill-fitting wooden dentures. He was bald and wore a cheap reddish-blonde wig that often slipped if he turned his head suddenly. It also had a tendency to take flight in a breeze. His knees were creaky and often ached, and his eyesight had deteriorated.”
― Hank Quense, The King Who Disappeared

“I swallowed a sigh since, truthfully, I was glad she found the cabin.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“That was how you survived. See the world as it is. Not as you think it is. Not as you want it to be, or think it should be. Not even as it was yesterday. See it exactly as it is, right now.”
― Barry Kirwan, When the children come

“A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.”
― Ursula Hegi, Intrusions

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“out of”
― Carolyn Keene, The Case of the Sneaky Snowman

“You fought in the Great War?” a journalist from The Guardian asked me in a long interview to coincide with the presentation of the prize.
“I didn’t think it was all that great.” I pointed out. “In fact, if memory serves, it was bloody awful.”
“Yes, of course,” said the journalist, laughing uncomfortably. “Only you’ve never written about it, have you?”
“Haven’t I?”
“Not explicitly, at least.” He said, his face taking on an expression of panic, as if he had suddenly realized that he might have forgotten some major work along the way.
“I suppose it depends on one’s definition of explicit,” I replied. ‘I’m pretty sure I’ve written about it any number of times. On the surface, occasionally. A little buried, at other times. But it’s been there, hasn’t it? Wouldn’t you agree? Or do I delude myself?”
“No, of course not. I only meant—“
“Unless I’ve failed utterly in my work, that is. Perhaps I haven’t made my intentions clear at all. Perhaps my entire writing career has been a busted flush.”
“No, Mr. Sadler, of course not. I think you misunderstood me. It’s clear that the Great War plays a significant part in your—“
At eighty-one, one has to find one’s fun where one can.”
― John Boyne, The Absolutist

“Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.”
― Jerry and Eileen Spinelli, Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

“I even seemed to be moving in kind of robotic, audio-animatronic fashion, beep boop.”
― Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

“Such abilities are the true gifts of the spirit, my daughter.”
― Candace Lynn Talmadge, Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal

“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization  could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“The work of reconciliation will flow when we turn our hearts to humbly listen to each other and open our eyes to see God’s image in one another.”
― Octavia Yvonne Webb, Mixed Bloodline: The story of a young biracial boy overcoming racism growing up in the South doing the 1930's Jim Crow Era

“Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age.  She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

“I was pleased to see that the Briton members of our forces were becoming accustomed to the discipline of the Kimbern and they were performing much better than both my brother and I expected.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

“I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
― R.D. Ronald

“If we attempt to explain, in an easily accessible and clear way, how positive and negative actions affect the filling and decreasing of their life ether, we can state that physically it depends on their intentions.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“In this town very little's changed and I'm afraid it never will.”
― Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

“Always have a 'Plan C”
― Zoltan Andrejkovics, The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team

“he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind.”
― Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

“Oh, don't take it so hard. I drove into this madness. Every woman needs a little madness in her life.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Een kunstwerk kan ons op velerlei manieren aanspreken: door zijn thema, zijn thesen, zijn onderwerp of zijn helden. Maar het meest van alles spreekt het ons toch aan door de aanwezigheid van kunst, want die aanwezigheid van kunst op de bladzijden van 'Misdaad en Straf' brengt de lezer in groter beroering dan de misdaad van Raskolnikov zelf. De primitieve kunst, de Egyptische kunst, de Griekse kunst, onze kunst, -dat alles is in een tijdsbestek van vele duizenden jaren één en dezelfde, enkelvoudige kunst. Daar ben ik van overtuigd. Zij houden een bepaalde gedachte in, een bepaalde bevestiging van het leven die zo allesomvattend is, dat zij niet in afzonderlijke woorden ontleed kan worden. Als een korrel van deze kracht in een gecompliceerder mengsel terechtkomt, krijgt dit bijmengsel van kunst op de betekenis van al het overige de overhand en blijkt het de kern, de ziel en de grondslag van het uitgebeelde te zijn.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“yelling his head off.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi in the South Seas