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  • #1
    K.  Ritz
    “It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #2
    Susan  Rowland
    “George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #3
    Thomas Hardy
    “Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.”
    Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  • #4
    “Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
    Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

  • #5
    Herman Melville
    “Even Solomon, he says, “the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.” Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gore is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. (pg 465)”
    Herman Melville, Moby Dick

  • #6
    Anthony Doerr
    “I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

    It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
    Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #8
    Jon Krakauer
    “Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day counterparts.”
    Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

  • #9
    Susan  Rowland
    “Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #10
    Todor Bombov
    “Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you would be . . . you’re robots. And all your names are that sort of, um . . . codes, technical numbers . . . I need some marker where I can pick you out. Well, well, to you I’ll call . . .,” and Willy pondered for a moment, “Gumball, yes, Gumball! Do you mind?” “No, sir, actually no,” CSE-TR-03 said, agreeing with its new given name. “Ah, that’s wonderful. And then you’re Darwin,” Willy said, accosting the second robot. “Look what a nice name—Darwin! What do you say, eh?” “What can I say, sir? I like it,” CSE-TR-02 agreed too. “Yes, a human name with a past . . . You and Gumball . . . are from the same family, the Methanesons!” “It turns out thus, sir,” Darwin confirmed its family belonging. “And you’re like Larry. You’re Larry. Do you know that?” More addressed the next robot in line. “Yes, sir, just now I learned that,” the third robot said, accepted its name as well.”
    Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

  • #11
    Behcet Kaya
    “Quite a memory, Mr. Ludefance. I’m impressed. Did you at any time during this encounter think about the fact that the now dead person was there to steal the iPhones with the four billion in cryptocurrency?”
    “It occurred to me.”
    “And you still took aim and shot him?”
    “Detective, there was a gun pointed at me. Yes, I shot first. And I’d do the same thing again.”
    Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

  • #12
    Yarro Rai
    “one of the fascinating traits of human kind is how we corrupt anything.
    which begs the question.
    Are we really the children of god or bastards of devil?
    look what we do to childhood innocence
    look what we do to a democracy
    look what we do to a helpless women, a tired man.
    look what we have done to religion, morality, diversity.
    look what we are doing to nature.
    humanity really!”
    Yarro Rai

  • #13
    “by”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #14
    Jon Krakauer
    “In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. Secrecy and silence are the perpetrator’s first line of defense. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure that no one listens. To this end, he marshals an impressive array of arguments, from the most blatant denial to the most sophisticated and elegant rationalization. After every atrocity one can expect to hear the same predictable apologies: it never happened; the victim lies; the victim exaggerates; the victim brought it upon herself; and in any case it is time to forget the past and move on. The more powerful the perpetrator, the greater is his prerogative to name and define reality, and the more completely his arguments prevail. JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN Trauma and Recovery”
    Jon Krakauer, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

  • #15
    Shel Silverstein
    “Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #16
    Victoria Dougherty
    “Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.”
    Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

  • #17
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves



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