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  • #1
    William Kely McClung
    “Black stood naked and stretched. It took twenty minutes to feel normal. Fuck elite. He felt old.”
    William Kely McClung, Black Fire

  • #2
    Robert         Reid
    “Blair continued. “The old man only visits me in dreams. Dressed always in black with amber fire as his companion, he is older than the mountains. He is the fire of othium and he comes with an ancient name, Oien. He demands you take your throne and raise his armies. You will rebuild for him the glory of the second age.”
    Robert Reid – The Son”
    Robert Reid, The Son

  • #3
    Steven Decker
    “I wondered what the Teacher would do if I refused, but I had no reason to. I found him to be a fascinating ... being, and I enjoyed his company.”
    Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

  • #4
    Anne  Michaud
    “You know, in most any other marriage, this would have been a private issue between a husband and a wife, very private. Obviously, it’s not here.” – Wendy Vitter, wife of former U.S. Sen. David Vitter”
    Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives

  • #5
    Milan Kordestani
    “Improving your tone essentially requires you to work on your communication skills.”
    Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

  • #6
    Susan  Rowland
    “She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #7
    “Throughout the process, you must show gratitude to those who have helped you get to where you are.”
    Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

  • #8
    J.K. Franko
    “Karen was radiant in a beautiful blue gown. Even her mother, for once, had said so. “Not just pretty, honey—you reek of class. Like Princess Grace from Morocco,” she’d said, beaming at her daughter.”
    J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Locating the village elders, he said to them, “I think that we are in for a bad time. The American Sky Soldiers are coming by helicopter and the usual things the Americans do of air strikes by fighter-bombers and by B52 large bombers is starting at Long Phuoc! I fear the worst!”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

  • #11
    “Alec had comfort books—stories so familiar that they made reading feel like coasting downhill on a bike, or water-skiing on a smooth lake.”
    Andrew Clements, The Losers Club

  • #12
    Yann Martel
    “I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi
    tags: art, world

  • #13
    Jostein Gaarder
    “الفيلسوف هو إنسان لم يستطع يوما أن يتعود على العالم.و العالم يظل بالنسبة له شيئا غير قابل للتفسير، وشيئا غريبا، ملغزا”
    جوستاين غاردر, Sophie’s World

  • #14
    Dodie Smith
    “... And they are like a drug, one needs them oftener and oftener and has to make them more and more exciting - until at last one's imagination won't work at all.”
    Dodie Smith

  • #15
    Truman Capote
    “Very few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ”
    Mark Twain



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