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  • #1
    Barry Kirwan
    “Perception s the only reality that matters”
    Barry Kirwan, Eden's Endgame

  • #2
    Behcet Kaya
    “An idea came to me. A crazy idea. I wanted to sneak into Holler’s estate located behind Holler Enterprises and find out more about what he had going on. I wanted to know about all those other buildings that could be seen stretching back into a heavily wooded area. Did it go all the way back to Santa Rosaria Sound?”
    Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

  • #3
    Sybrina Durant
    “Great Job! Now you have a bow just like Cleo.”
    Sybrina Durant, Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story

  • #4
    “What was wrong with these American students? Didn’t they know I was the teacher and they had to do as I said? I learned quickly that my authority meant little, if anything, to them. I was not the all-powerful and feared mwalimu (teacher) of Africa.”
    Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

  • #5
    Max Nowaz
    “Every night I dream a lot. Every day I live a little.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #6
    J.J. Sorel
    “It took me a moment to speak. My heart pumped madly as though I’d run for miles in pursuit of something vital. In this case, love.”
    J.J. Sorel, A Taste of Peace

  • #7
    Anne  Michaud
    “There is some evidence that Huma Abedin knew that her husband continued his sexting compulsion, even after quitting Congress in disgrace. She blamed herself for bailing out of couples counseling, according to friends quoted in the New York Post.”
    Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

  • #8
    Alex Haley
    “I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine. - el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz”
    Alex Haley

  • #9
    Gregory David Roberts
    “WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards,”
    Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

  • #10
    “Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.”
    Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

  • #11
    Robert Graves
    “I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.”
    Robert Graves, I, Claudius

  • #12
    Donna Tartt
    “The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #13
    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #14
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has  been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!”
    Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

  • #15
    “Rather than get hung up on theological debates, why don’t we focus on the depraved state of the people who need freedom? While debates rage, the devil is laughing as people stay in bondage.”
    Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

  • #16
    K.  Ritz
    “Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
                Whither be the heart of Justice?
                Lo, tis fast in stone.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #17
    Steven Decker
    “One thing I know for certain is that I want to go back in time and save all the people I killed.”
    Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

  • #18
    Max Nowaz
    “I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #19
    “The night was when all the failures were remembered longer.”
    Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

  • #20
    Malala Yousafzai
    “We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself.”
    Malala Yousafzai

  • #21
    Aesop
    “Zeal should not outrun discretion.”
    Aesop, Aesop's Fables

  • #22
    “He had left off being a perfectionist then, when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean, not membership in Onwentsia, or the Lake Forest Golf and Country Club, or the Lawyers' Club, not power, or knowledge, or goodness - not anything - cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.”
    Judith Guest, Ordinary People

  • #23
    Elizabeth Kostova
    “We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.”
    Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

  • #24
    Sharon Creech
    “The second jealousy is this: I am jealous that my mother had wanted more children. Wasn't I enough? When I walk in her moccasins, though, I say, "If I were my mother, I might want more children--not because I don't love my Salamanca, but because I love her so much. I want more of these.”
    Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons



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