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  • #1
    Jody    Summers
    “Yeah, you almost got yourself killed, you idiot,” she said smiling. She
    was well aware of his daredevil tendencies and to the extent possible,
    comfortable with them.
    “No, it was something stranger than that. When I was underwater,
    my life did flash before my eyes. You know, just like everyone says it
    does. But there was . . . something else . . . something that wasn’t part
    of my life. It was like it was stuck right there at the end, just before I
    popped to the surface, and I can’t imagine what it was.”
    Val slowly turned her head back toward the road then asked, “Well,
    what was it you saw?”
    Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

  • #2
    K.  Ritz
    “Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #3
    Sherman Kennon
    “Just as dust of a gentle breeze, quiet ascends of fallen leaves, upward to the skies. Still, we rise.”
    Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

  • #4
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “Imagine there’s no Sadness, it’s easy if you try…” whoever sings, John something.  “Nothing white inside us, around us only DIE… Imagine all the Shells, Loving everyday—“ ”
    Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

  • #5
    Mike  Martin
    “You speak rabbit?” asked Princess Sophie.
    “Of course,” said Lady Ariana. “And cat, dog, mouse, pig, and chicken. Fish, too. I am a magician, after all.”
    Mike Martin, Princess Sophie and the Christmas Elixir

  • #6
    Raz Mihal
    “My soul spread the wings of divine love onto existence from Namsan Tower.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #7
    Max Nowaz
    “Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy.
    “No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this you’ve been telling them?”
    “Nothing, I haven’t told them anything.” Charlie looked drunk.
    “He said you’ve turned your friend into a crayfish,” insisted Wendy.
    “He’s always making little jokes like that, and you fell for it. How am I supposed to do that, for heaven’s sake?” Adam was angry.
    “With your little book you found. What’s that under your arm?”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #8
    Dante Alighieri
    “A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.”
    Dante

  • #9
    Michael Ondaatje
    “And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.”
    Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table

  • #10
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.”
    E. L. Konigsburg

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #12
    Tom Robbins
    “Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.”
    Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

  • #13
    Wilson Rawls
    “Grandpa,” I asked, “what good’s it going to do us, knowing his name?” “It might do a lot of good,” Grandpa said. “This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do.” “Make friends with him!” I said. “Grandpa, I don’t”
    Wilson Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys



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