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  • #1
    “From the vaulted arches several stories above us, entire, mature trees were growing, reaching leafy boughs down into the open air between the floor and ceiling. There was a full glade growing up there, oak, birch, maple, and elm, like someone had carved out a few acres of the park and fixed it there upside down.”
    Edward Williams

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Ami Loper
    “My deepest desire is to be so intimately acquainted with Him that when we finally meet one another face to face, He and I will not be strangers, no not us!”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #4
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “The minute the door was opened, she wished she had made some excuse not to see them.  Victor was sitting by the bed, and the tender expression on his face as he looked down at his wife and latest child, made something violent and jealous jump in Penelope's heart.  She could have murdered Ethan for shutting the door loudly behind them, interrupting their intimacy.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #5
    “He used his large shoulders and movements to impose his dominance over others as he strutted around but his facial expressions were a giveaway to people like Maeve who was born into a gritty group of native born fighting Irish. While many saw him as a man who worked his way up to power and influence and attained success that others fail to achieve, she saw him as a sham. He didn’t acquire loyalty by goodwill, but by corruption, fear, and loathing.”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #6
    Robert         Reid
    “9. Delicately Sylva moved the upper layers of paper and vellum away and saw, lying on the table, a small book. It was an ornately inscribed little volume with a beautifully worked golden motif; this was what had glittered and caught her attention. The book’s cover was edged in gold and in the centre of the cover was the motif: a letter O superimposed with the letter I, forming the symbol Φ, also marked out in gold.”
    Robert Reid, The Empress

  • #7
    Paul A. Barra
    “Past regrets may not be correctable, but sometimes for a writer the pain of his or her failure can be softened by the work of his hand.”
    Paul A. Barra

  • #8
    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #9
    Lawrence Hill
    “When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.”
    Lawrence Hill

  • #10
    “If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they’re little, where all the good things happen, before life starts kicking you in the ass and in the head and every other places.”
    Beatrice Sparks

  • #11
    Ally Condie
    “She wraps her arms around me and speaks in my ear. Words just for me--the poetry of I love you--to keep me warm in the cold. With them she turns me back from ash and nothing into flesh and blood.”
    Ally Condie

  • #12
    Jules Verne
    “The unforeseen does not exist,”
    Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

  • #13
    John Patrick Kennedy
    “Nothing dies in Hell.”
    John Patrick Kennedy, Plague of Angels

  • #14
    Bernhard Schlink
    “I always had the feeling that no one understood me anyway, that no one knew who I was and what made me do this or that. And you know, when no one understands you, then no one can call you to account.”
    Bernhard Schlink



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