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  • #1
    Carolyn M. Bowen
    “He motioned for Elpidio to sit down after watching him pace the room in circles. Elpidio pulled out a chair and admitted, 'I've messed up in more ways than I can count.”
    Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller

  • #2
    Yvonne Korshak
    “My Aspasia. With her, he’d discovered the sweetness in life . . . and she might like to know that. He’d tell her sometime. But he knew he’d given this lovely woman what she’d wanted most, their son’s name. He leaned over to the child. “So, you’re Little Pericles.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
    Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

  • #4
    Andri E. Elia
    “When you call a ghetto a cordon, does it become a village?”
    Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

  • #5
    Nancy Omeara
    “How did I become President?
    I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
    Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

  • #6
    Sara Pascoe
    “Oo, I like a good cat fight – especially when it doesn’t involve me,’ Oscar said.
    ‘Shut up!’ Bryony and Raya said simultaneously. A hairline crack formed in the ice between them.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #7
    K.  Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #8
    Diane Setterfield
    “Todos tenemos nuestros dolores, y aunque la forma, el peso y las dimensiones del dolor son diferentes para cada persona, el color del dolor es común a todos nosotros.”
    Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

  • #9
    Neal Shusterman
    “If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?”
    Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

  • #11
    Victoria Aveyard
    “They beg to a Silver king, and spit upon Red queens.”
    Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

  • #12
    Jung Chang
    “The Manchus drank tea with a lot of milk. In her case, the milk came from the breasts of a nurse. Cixi had been taking human milk since her prolonged illness in the early 1880s, on the recommendation of a renowned doctor. Several wet nurses were employed, and took turns to squeeze milk into a bowl for her. The nurses brought their sucking babies with them, and the woman who served her the longest stayed on in the palace, her son being given education and an office job.”
    Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

  • #13
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

  • #14
    Sara Pascoe
    “On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #15
    Therisa Peimer
    “Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
    "Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
    "My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
    "It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss." 
    "What did you do to help her get through it?" 
    Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
    Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #16
    Robert         Reid
    “As the pair turned to leave they were taken by surprise by the shop owner. He was middle-aged and did not look as though he could overpower Arvid, although the large club he wielded showed his intention.
    Raimund instinctively made a run for the door, only to be floored by a blow from the club. From his dazed prone position Raimund watched in horror as his uncle thrust his knife into the shopkeeper’s chest. With blood pumping from the fatal wound, the shopkeeper fell across Raimund.”
    Robert Reid, The Emperor

  • #17
    Jean M. Auel
    “She realized how much she had missed the company of friendly people who behaved in a normal way.”
    Jean M. Auel, The Plains of Passage

  • #18
    Donald Miller
    “Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they’d had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them.”
    Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

  • #19
    Kristin Hannah
    “But when he looked at her—and she looked at him—they both knew that there was something worse than kissing the wrong person. It was wanting to.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #20
    John Hersey
    “Such clouds of dust had risen that there was a sort of twilight around.”
    John Hersey, Hiroshima

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
    Jane Austen

  • #22
    Anna Sewell
    “To my dear and honored Mother,
    whose life, no less than her pen,
    has been devoted to the welfare of others,
    this little book is affectionately dedicated.”
    Anna Sewell, Black Beauty



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