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  • #1
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #2
    A.R. Merrydew
    “Androids with Artificial Intelligence have no heart or soul. They will make our perfect masters.”
    A.R. Merrydew

  • #3
    Paul A. Barra
    “Can you tell us what happened, Percy? All right if I call you Percy?” “Yes, if I can call you Harry.”
The detective smiled thinly. Janet Bruno did not smile at all.”
    Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

  • #4
    Robert         Reid
    “Beware he whose reputation is burnished bright, oft times the darkness is hidden by the polished light.”
    Robert Reid, The Empress:

  • #5
    Ami Loper
    “We all want reassurance that the love we crave is a love we can find, or that will find us.”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #6
    Merlin Franco
    “A saint has control over his anger and itches.”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #7
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #8
    Edward        Williams
    “Scopolamine never asks for permission”
    Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

  • #9
    Boris Pasternak
    “The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that in the houses across the lane people were eating and drinking in the same way at such an hour. Beyond the window lay mute, dark, hungry Moscow. Her food stores were empty, and people had even forgotten to think of such things as game and vodka.

    And thus it turned out that the only true life is one that resembles the life around us and drowns in it without leaving a trace, that isolated happiness is not happiness, so that duck and alcohol, when they seem to be the only ones in town, are not alcohol and a duck at all.”
    Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

  • #10
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The great task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #11
    Rhonda Byrne
    “Life is meant to be abundant --- in all areas.”
    Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

  • #12
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “In the great green room, there was a telephone
    And a red balloon
    And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...”
    Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

  • #13
    Frederick Forsyth
    “The eyes of the Englishman were open and stared back with frank candour. Except for the irises, which were of flecked grey so that they seemed smoky like the hoar mist on a winter’s morning. It took Rodin a few seconds to realize that they had no expression at all. Whatever thoughts did go on behind the smoke-screen, nothing came through, and Rodin felt a worm of unease.

    Like all men created by systems and procedures, he did not like the unpredictable and therefore the uncontrollable.”
    Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

  • #14
    K.  Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #15
    Max Nowaz
    “Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard. 
He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in 
anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too. 
Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed 
incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to 
concentrate.
“Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard. 
“I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #16
    Author Harold Phifer
    “One other thing—she was always armed. Ossie May talked about her gun even more than she bragged about her cooking. Out of nowhere, she took me to the gun range. She finished one clip with her right hand then unloaded the other clip with her left hand. I certainly got the message. She was not to be messed with or messed over. I was scared straight by this woman.”
    Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

  • #17
    Dawn Chalker
    “Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees.  Ian was right.  It’s time to move on.  Not to forget, but to forge ahead.”
    Dawn Chalker

  • #18
    Lotchie Burton
    “Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #19
    Michael G. Kramer
    “This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

  • #20
    Robert         Reid
    “I left you in charge in Banora and you allowed a ragtag army to beat you in battle!”
    Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

  • #21
    Steven Decker
    “We’re both as tall as most men here in 1801, so we can make it work.”
    Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

  • #22
    Shafter Bailey
    “The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not a solution. Humans you love would be hurt deeply if you left them. Becky Johnson and her parents would be crushed. Your grandparents in Florida never forget to mention your name in their evening prayers. I have loved you before and since your first heartbeat. Your father loves you. He will be rightfully proud when I tell him about your brave attempt to protect Pretty Boy.”
    “You will speak to Daddy?”
    “I will.”
    “Please, may I know? Who are you?”
    “I am your guardian angel, Cindy.”
    Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

  • #23
    “Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #24
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “And neither the angels in heaven above,
    Nor the demons down under the sea,
    Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
    Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #25
    Kim Edwards
    “I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer--not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355]”
    Kim Edwards, The Lake of Dreams

  • #26
    “Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
    Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

  • #27
    Nicholas Evans
    “There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.”
    Nicholas Evans

  • #28
    Aldous Huxley
    “Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth. What remains in the bum or studiedly jocular desperation of one who is aware of the obscene Presence in the corner of the room and knows that the door is locked, that there aren’t any windows. And now the thing bears down on him. He feels a hand on his sleeve, smells a stinking breath, as the executioner’s assistant leans almost amorously toward him. “Your turn next, brother. Kindly step this way.” And in an instant his quiet terror is transmuted into a frenzy as violent as it is futile. There is no longer a man among his fellow men, no longer a rational being speaking articulately to other rational beings; there is only a lacerated animal, screaming and struggling in the trap. For in the end fear casts out even a man’s humanity. And fear, my good friends, fear is the very basis and foundation of modern life. Fear of the much touted technology which, while it raises out standard of living, increases the probability of our violently dying. Fear of the science which takes away the one hand even more than what it so profusely gives with the other. Fear of the demonstrably fatal institutions for while, in our suicidal loyalty, we are ready to kill and die. Fear of the Great Men whom we have raised, and by popular acclaim, to a power which they use, inevitably, to murder and enslave us. Fear of the war we don’t want yet do everything we can to bring about.”
    Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence

  • #29
    Lewis Carroll
    “Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."
    I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
    I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!”
    Lewis Carroll



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