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  • #1
    John Payton Foden
    “Then Drago began the deliberate, precise, business-like process of killing.  A knee-buckling burst of fire and flash laid waste to men and material within seconds.  A Panhard vehicle to Silva’s left simply disappeared in an explosion that spraying metal parts willy-nilly in every direction in a spread so thorough that Drago thought they were under fire, and he yelled at his men to respond.  Another blast destroyed a six-wheeled reconnaissance vehicle, but it didn’t break it apart; it simply expanded as if swollen or bloated, like an air mattress or inflatable toy, though it still had weight and quickly collapsed over its own suspension.  Some trucks were overturned; a Jeep flipped end-over-end.  None were left unscathed.  In short order, what had been ten or twelve vehicles were reduced to a single steaming and smoking pile of metal.”
    John Payton Foden, Magenta

  • #2
    Max Nowaz
    “Some people say
    Rhyming is but a sin.
    Little sins are fun
    So try, before you bin.”
    Max Nowaz, Timbi's Dream

  • #3
    Steven Decker
    “I’m sorry to tell you that another Dani was found wandering around the time station in our building, confused and disoriented.”
    Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

  • #4
    Nicole  Morris
    “I just kept living in hope, but I’ve got used to that fact now. The hope is gone. I still dream about her, and I still have nightmares about her. It gets easier to cope with, but it never leaves”.”
    Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

  • #5
    Malcolm  Collins
    “Individual Desirability / Aggregate Desirability = Your Desirability Ratio

    The higher a relationship’s Desirability Ratio, the more stable a relationship will be. If a relationship’s Desirability Ratio drops below one for either partner, the relationship becomes very likely to dissolve.

    To put that in other words: When your partner is much more desirable to you than their “league” would suggest, and when this dynamic is mutual (i.e., each partner values the other more than society on average values that other partner), your relationship will be uniquely stable. However, if either partner values the other less than that person would be valued on an open market, the relationship becomes unstable.”
    Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist's Guide to Relationships

  • #6
    William Kely McClung
    “All she could think of as she turned the key was, they were real. Jabberwockys and Bandersnatches and all the fucking Snarks. Boojums for sure. Maybe she had entered the Twilight Zone, but this shit was as real as real gets.”
    William Kely McClung, LOOP

  • #7
    Margaret Atwood
    “Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #8
    Andy Weir
    “Besides, if I had a nickel for every time I wanted to smack a kid’s parents for not teaching them even the most basic things…well…I’d have enough nickels to put in a sock and smack those parents with it.”
    Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

  • #9
    Thomas  Harris
    “Some days you wake up changed. This was one for Starling, she could tell. What she had seen yesterday at the Potter Funeral Home had caused in her a small tectonic shift. Starling had studied psychology and criminology in a good school. In her life she had seen some of the hideously offhand ways in which the world breaks things. But she hadn’t really known, and now she knew: sometimes the family of man produces, behind a human face, a mind whose pleasure is what lay on the porcelain table at Potter, West Virginia, in the room with the cabbage roses. Starling’s first apprehension of that mind was worse than anything she could see on the autopsy scales. The knowledge would lie against her skin forever,”
    Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

  • #10
    Carl Bernstein
    “Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has always been an editor, never a reporter. He was inclined to worry that too many reporters on the metropolitan staff were incompetent, and thought even the best reporters could be saved from self-destruction only by the skills of an editor. His natural distrust of reporters was particularly acute on the Watergate story, where the risks were very great, and he was in the uncomfortable position of having to trust Bernstein and Woodward more than he had ever trusted any reporters.

    -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
    Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men

  • #11
    Catherine Marshall
    “There’s fire in you, Julie. I can see you out there in the street, carrying a banner for all the underprivileged people of the world.”
    Catherine Marshall, Julie

  • #12
    Dennis Lehane
    “When she found his eyes, hers were fuller and sharper, lit with something that had entered the world centuries before civilized things. “I get off at midnight,” she said.”
    Dennis Lehane, Live by Night

  • #13
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

  • #14
    Eckhart Tolle
    “If not now, when?”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #15
    Robert T. Kiyosaki
    “أما أبي الثري فعلى الطرف الآخر شجعني أن أبدأ في حيازة الأصول وكان ذلك شيئا أحبه، وهو قال لي: إن لم تكن تحب القيام بذلك فلن تلتزم بالقيام به.”
    روبرت تي كيوساكي ( Robert T. Kiyosaki), ‫الأب الغني والأب الفقير



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