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  • #1
    Paul A. Barra
    “When the train left the station, Pletcher drove back to Possum Misery Lane as the sun was setting over Oyster Bay, hoping to spy a little on the Russian diplomatic estate.”
    Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

  • #2
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #3
    “A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #4
    Merlin Franco
    “This place is a paradox: it’s a backward shit heap with no cell phone signal and thus no WhatsApp. But we have broadband cables at home and jobless aunties on the main street who spread misinformation faster than radio waves. I”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #5
    Edward        Williams
    “Scopolamine never asks for permission”
    Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

  • #6
    “I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #7
    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia, not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?" "How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me to the beehive.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #8
    Solomon Northup
    “whether”
    Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave

  • #9
    Heath Sommer
    “You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
    Heath Sommer

  • #10
    Hilary Mantel
    “...I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #11
    Chaim Potok
    “How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.”
    Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

  • #12
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

  • #13
    Gillian Flynn
    “Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl



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