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  • #1
    Behcet Kaya
    “You could have had an abortion.”
    “Mr. Ludefance, when I found out that I was pregnant, I never thought twice about getting rid of it. I could have so easily. But it was my choice to keep this baby.”
    “That was a brave choice to make.”
    “I have no regrets, Mr. Ludefance.”
    Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

  • #2
    Steve  Pemberton
    “Whenever we take a stand, we invite others who are siting on the sidelines to join us.”
    Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

  • #3
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #4
    James Redfield
    “And what quantum physics has shown is that when we look at these patterns of energy at smaller and smaller levels, startling results can be seen. Experiments have revealed that when you break apart small aspects of this energy, what we call elementary particles, and try to observe how they operate, the act of observation itself alters the results--as if these elementary particles are influenced by what the experimenter expects. This is true even if the particles must appear in places they couldn't possibly go, given the laws of the universe as we know them: two places at the same moment, forward or backward in time, that sort of thing.”
    James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

  • #5
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...
    This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation: Library Edition

  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.”
    C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Samuel Beckett
    “That is what I find so wonderful, that not a day goes by....hardly a day, without some addition to one's knowledge however trifling, the addition I mean, provided one takes the pains.”
    Samuel Beckett, Happy Days

  • #9
    Gail Carson Levine
    “Everyone dies. You needn't go on about it so.”
    Gail Carson Levine, Fairest

  • #10
    Michael              Parker
    “That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line.”
    Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

  • #11
    Beverly Magid
    “Would there be extra payment for my services?” Leah tried not to appear too eager. “Is money all you Jews ever think about?” Vaselik asked. “It’s easy to be so offhand about money when you have it,” she replied coldly.”
    Beverly Magid, Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle

  • #12
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    “Wallace travelled independently and was challenged every step. He had no government or military support system. He had little cash — he earned enough to survive by sending natural history specimens to his agent in London for sale to collectors and museums. He had visceral moments of excitement when he discovered a beautiful new butterfly or adopted a baby orangutan he had just orphaned by shooting its mother. He lived simply, often in the rainforest on isolated islands, in a manner completely different to the expected behavior of other Western explorers and colonials.”
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

  • #13
    Milan Kordestani
    “Though civil discourse may be especially challenging to facilitate during fractured times, the process itself has stood the test of time for centuries.”
    Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

  • #14
    Steven Decker
    “They came for me the next morning.”
    Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

  • #15
    “His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul.”
    Rafael Polo, Growing Up American

  • #16
    Charles Baudelaire
    “When I was young I lived a constant storm,
    Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through,
    So in my garden few red fruits were born,
    The rain and thunder had so much to do.

    - The Enemy
    Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #18
    Sarah J. Maas
    “To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

  • #19
    Louis de Bernières
    “Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..”
    Louis de Bernières, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts

  • #20
    Emmuska Orczy
    “It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys. CHAPTER”
    Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

  • #21
    Annie Proulx
    “The sky a net, its mesh clogged with glowing stars.”
    Annie Proulx, The Shipping News



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