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  • #1
    Sara Pascoe
    “Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #2
    Therisa Peimer
    “Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" 
    "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #3
    Shel Silverstein
    “When I am gone what will you do?
    Who will write and draw for you?
    Someone smarter-someone new?
    Someone better-maybe YOU!”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #4
    William Golding
    “Он вдруг понял, как утомительна жизнь, когда приходится заново прокладывать каждую тропку и чуть не все время, пока не спишь, ты следишь за своими вышагивающими ногами.”
    William Golding; introduction by E. M, Lord of the Flies

  • #5
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I happen to know this, and I happen to know that, and maybe I know that;and I work everything out from there. Tomorrow I may forgot that this is true, but remember that something else is true, so I can reconstruct it all again. I am never quite sure of where I am supposed to begin or where I am supposed to end. I just remember enough all the time so that as the memory fades and some of the pieces fall out I can put the thing back together again every day”
    Richard P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law

  • #6
    Donald Miller
    “I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.”
    Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

  • #7
    Sara Pascoe
    “What's that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn't feel bad - I'm here, aren't I, I'm not the parent who didn't even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it's become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn't realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #8
    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too?”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #9
    Robert         Reid
    “Raimund, we must promise each other that if one of us leaves Mora it must be both. We must leave together.” She was not sure what had made her ask for this promise, but she was growing more aware of her femininity. She loved Raimund as a brother, but something told her that her feelings for him were more than those of a sibling.
    Raimund smiled and squeezed her hand. “Of course Aleana, I am after all your brother.”
    Robert Reid, The Emperor

  • #10
    “At this point, it’s as though a demon is haunting me. It’s as though every time I find myself in a difficult situation; it compels me to take the coward’s way out. And I’m fully aware it’s the coward’s way out, yet I cannot help myself”
    Cade Mengler, The Companions

  • #11
    Alan    Bradley
    “What seemed at first like an act of incandescent self-destruction turned out to be the onramp to a bleak treadmill, one that felt designed to eradicate my personality and identity. It didn’t end my self-recrimination and misery. Instead, it illustrated just how good I’d had it living on the street.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #12
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #13
    Michael              Parker
    “Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.”
    Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

  • #14
    Lynne Truss
    “Yes, you can see the bullet points here, here and here, sir; there are multiple back-slashes, of course. And that’s a forward slash. I would have to call this a frenzied attack. Did anyone hear the interrobang?”
    “Oh yes. Woman next door was
    temporarily deafened by it. What’s this?”
    “Ah. You don’t see many of these any
    more. It’s an emoticon. Hold your head this way and it appears to be winking.”
    “Good God! You mean – ?”
    “That’s the mouth.”
    “You mean – ?”
    “That’s the nose.”
    “Good grief Then it’s – ?”
    “Oh yes, sir. There’s no doubt about it, sir. The Punctuation Murderer has struck again.”
    Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

  • #15
    Carson McCullers
    “But say a man does know. He sees the world as it is and he looks back thousands of years to see how it all come about. He watches the slow agglutination of capital and power and he sees its pinnacle today. He sees America as a crazy house... He sees a whole damn army of unemployed and billions of dollars and thousands of miles of land wasted... He sees how when people suffer just so much they get mean and ugly and something dies in them. But the main thing he sees is that the whole system of the world is built on a lie. And although it's as plain as the shining sun—the don't-knows have lived with that lie so long they just can't see it.”
    Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

  • #16
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #17
    Rachel Carson
    “In the lowest pools the Laminarias begin to appear, called variously the oarweeds, devil’s aprons, sea tangles, and kelps. The Laminarias belong to the brown algae, which flourish in the dimness of deep waters and polar seas. The horsetail kelp lives below the tidal zone with others of the group, but in deep pools also comes over the threshold, just above the line of the lowest tides. [...] To look into such a pool is to behold a dark forest, it’s foliage like the leaves of palm trees, the heavy stalks of the kelps also curiously like the trunks of palms. [...] One of these laminarian holdfasts is something like the roots of a forest tree, branching out, dividing, subdividing, in its very complexity a measure of the great seas that roar over this plant.”
    Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea

  • #18
    Homer
    “All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.”
    Homer



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