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  • #1
    John M. Vermillion
    “Jerry Laws, former smokejumper and now high school district superintendent: “We’re making changes in this district. Teachers teaching, not proselytizing, preparing students for life. No social promotions. Good order in every classroom. They must earn what they seek.”
    John M. Vermillion, Pack's Posse

  • #2
    Max Nowaz
    “A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #3
    Marie Montine
    “You are a difficult woman, Cassandra. I should give you back to the humans. They deserve you.”
    Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part Three The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

  • #4
    Steve  Pemberton
    “Your own setbacks aren’t what they first appear to be; rather than viewing them as failures, view them as learning opportunities that are the building blocks for future preparation.”
    Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

  • #5
    Mark M. Bello
    “The cop’s suspended with pay. With pay, Mama! My husband is dead, and his killer gets a paid vacation? What kind of justice is that?”
    Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

  • #6
    “I had a long talk with my dear Fat Mary that night, because I had many questions. Could someone actually be beaten to death by such a nun? Did Mother Rufina, the new Superior, know that Sister Clotilda was so cruel? Who let her work with children? Could nuns go to hell?
    Fat Mary told me she didn’t know the answers to my questions, but she reminded me that it was her role to take my worries and burdens and keep them for me until a time when I could understand them.”
    Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

  • #7
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
    tags: paris

  • #8
    Peter B. Forster
    “Just a middle-age man with all the privilege that unasked for gift affords. When in truth it seems, we see suffering as the province of children, mothers, wives and lovers. Broken, struck by the hand of a man’s blind ambition, brutish strength. What of the gentle-man with the soft voice…”
    Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

  • #9
    Esther Forbes
    “And many of the townsfolk of Boston seem more concerned with the profit of their business than the great cause that is swirling around them.”
    Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

  • #10
    V.C. Andrews
    “Prettiness was more akin to coziness than grand, rich and beautiful.”
    V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

  • #11
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans



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