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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “Just now he was on a mind-blowing adventure and it was rapidly spiralling out of control, and this is what he needed to concentrate his mind on. How could he squeeze Daley to get the book back; that’s if Daley had it in his possession in the first place? The next few days were going to be crucial.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #4
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Are you a student of Shakespeare?"
    "He's been dead a long time, so not precisely, but who isn't?" she said.”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #5
    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “No one else can close the door that God has opened for you,” she quietly said under her breath. That was something that Grandma Alice had said to her many times before her death.

    “I miss you, Alice,” she whispered, “and wish you were here with me now.”
    Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

  • #6
    William Kely McClung
    “All she could think of as she turned the key was, they were real. Jabberwockys and Bandersnatches and all the fucking Snarks. Boojums for sure. Maybe she had entered the Twilight Zone, but this shit was as real as real gets.”
    William Kely McClung, LOOP

  • #7
    Esther Forbes
    “THE fourteenth of April, 1775.”
    Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

  • #8
    David Wroblewski
    “She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn't understood why. Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world. The apple tree was still nice to lie near. They peony, for its scent, also fine. When she walked through the woods (infrequently now) she picked her way along the path, making way for the boy inside to run along before her. It could be hard to choose the time outside over the time within.”
    David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
    tags: time

  • #9
    Jostein Gaarder
    “كثيرون يفضلون القراءة لكن كل شيء يتوقف على ماذا نقرأ”
    Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

  • #10
    James W. Loewen
    “The historian must have no country. —JOHN QUINCY ADAMS”
    James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

  • #11
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Although the mortality rate was erratic, ranging from one fifth in some places to nine tenths or almost total elimination in others, the overall estimate of modern demographers has settled—for the area extending from India to Iceland—around the same figure expressed in Froissart’s casual words: “a third of the world died.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

  • #12
    John Ajvide Lindqvist
    “Cada vela do céu já se apagou E o dia, triunfante, se prepara Para pisar nos cumes das montanhas. Ou vou e vivo, ou fico aqui e morro. William Shakespeare,”
    John Ajvide Lindqvist, Deixa ela entrar

  • #13
    Steven Decker
    “His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was inclined to share it with.”
    Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

  • #14
    Lotchie Burton
    “Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #15
    Shafter Bailey
    “James Ed smiled. “We should start a cuddling movement. Cuddling would solve most of the world’s problems. I can just see our bumper stickers. Have you cuddled today?”
    Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

  • #16
    Dawn Chalker
    “Out of the bedroom window, Tara watches the silver moon in the night sky cast a faint glow on the pine trees.  Ian was right.  It’s time to move on.  Not to forget, but to forge ahead.”
    Dawn Chalker

  • #17
    Michael G. Kramer
    “This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

  • #18
    “Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #19
    Robert         Reid
    “My Lady, one of the rumours in the inns gives the wizard a name. Adun, a disinherited Aramin child from an ancient myth, supposedly arisen after hundreds of years from his grave in the Doran Mountains. It stuck me as a strange coincidence that the child’s name was so like the name of the Captain of the Swan.”
    Robert Reid – The Son”
    Robert Reid, The Son

  • #20
    “Everyone is ready for the end of the day, ten-minute group meditation. The meditation is like the iciest beer you have ever
had after a hard day’s work.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #21
    J. Rose Black
    “It occurred to me then, like one of those moments I’d remember years from now . . . the crisp November air, the amber-colored field lights so bright they eclipsed the moon. The electricity of the win suffusing every breath, every cell, every particle of the world that was Vanquer, Texas . . . 
    Everyone has a story.”
    J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

  • #22
    Max Nowaz
    “I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #23
    Bram Stoker
    “All men are mad in some way or the other;”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #24
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “He watched the sun rise beyond the grape arbor. In the thin golden light the young leaves and tendrils of the Scuppernong were like Twink Weatherby's hair. He decided that sunrise and sunset both gave him a pleasantly sad feeling. The sunrise brought a wild, free sadness; the sunset, a lonely yet a comforting one. He indulged his agreeable melancholy until the earth under him turned from gray to lavender and then to the color dried corn husks.”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling

  • #25
    Mario Puzo
    “Un hombre que no pasa el suficiente tiempo con su familia no merece ser llamado hombre.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #26
    “When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
    Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates

  • #27
    Richard Wright
    “If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”
    Richard Wright

  • #28
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Apply your fiendish mind to the matter," said Howl. "Or even think, if you know how.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
    tags: humor



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