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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Therisa Peimer
    “I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #3
    Sara Pascoe
    “I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #4
    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “Let me ask you another question, if I may,” Jake says. “Have you ever been in love?”

    “Yes. Sure, I have,” she answered defensively.

    “No. I mean really in love. The kind of love that makes you abandon all reason and throw caution to the wind. The kind of love that makes you trade logic for passion?”
    Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

  • #5
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “My heart aches, a drowsy numbness pains as if of hemlock I had drunk."

    Ode To A NIghtengale, John Keats”
    Barbara Sontheimer

  • #6
    Behcet Kaya
    “Two rapid shots were fired; the first shot directed at the woman, and the other shot to her companion.”
    Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

  • #7
    Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin
    “Though your steps may falter
    persevere with the climb,
    You will achieve the summit
    at the appropriate time.”
    Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifice For A Kingdom

  • #8
    Fred Gipson
    “What on earth, boys!”
    Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

  • #9
    Carl Bernstein
    “You’d better bring me up to date because . . .” He turned to order lunch in perfect French, and then turned back to Woodward. “. . . our cocks are on the chopping block now and I just want to know a little more about this.”
    Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men

  • #10
    Omar Farhad
    “Common decency does not stem from religious beliefs, it's a common sense rather”
    Omar Farhad, Need a Ride?

  • #11
    Maurice Sendak
    “I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #12
    S.E. Hinton
    “I never noticed colors and and clouds and stuff until you kept reminding me about them. It seems like they were never there before.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #13
    Chris Cleave
    “Your whole life, you had to fit it onto one sheet of paper. There was a black line around the edge of the sheet, a border, and if you wrote outside the line then your application would not be valid. They only gave you enough space to write down the very saddest things that had happened to you. That was the worst part. Because if you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?”
    Chris Cleave, Little Bee



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