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    Susan  Rowland
    “Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #2
    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #3
    Steven Decker
    “We know about the wildlife for God’s sake!” screamed Aideen. “We’re being attacked by a feckin’ pack of chimpanzees right now! Get us out of here!”
    Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

  • #4
    Andri E. Elia
    “Bend with me.”
    Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

  • #5
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
    Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

  • #6
    K.  Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #7
    Alan    Bradley
    “Think about it this way—if we die together, you won’t have to mourn me.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #8
    “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

  • #9
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

  • #10
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #11
    Robin Waterfield
    “Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
    Robin Waterfield, Republic

  • #12
    Victoria Aveyard
    “Only men can speak all day long and still think themselves silent.”
    Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker

  • #13
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot



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