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  • #1
    Sara Pascoe
    “I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #2
    Andri E. Elia
    “We Yandar are winged. We don’t succumb to adversity; we fly with it.”
    Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
    Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

  • #4
    Nancy Omeara
    “Killing War

    I had no desire to alter the viable occupations of humanity, but I was determined to do something about the level of regional bloodshed.
    Education was my weapon of choice, based on a simple hypothesis: that the advance troops of physical carnage are the propaganda and lies that justify murder, making the real battleground that of ideas.
    I was determined to address a situation where so many people were ready to kill, driven by the conviction that others are either evil incarnate or will murder them first if they don’t kill them first if they don’t …
    Entire nations were buried in twisted truths submerged by hate, covered with vengeance. Voices of remorse, forgiveness, justice and reconciliation were drowned out by the din of screams for death or revenge.
    The best defense system against the cycle of violence was something that is impervious to any tool of destruction ever spawned. That something is knowledge.”
    Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

  • #5
    Frank  Lambert
    “Staring at the wraith’s left hand, Zam saw a stump where its index finger should have been and knew then that the severed finger moving around in his pocket belonged to the wraith.”
    Frank Lambert, Xyz

  • #6
    K.  Ritz
    “At what point does faith become insanity?”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #7
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “She is an able negotiator and a strong ally." Pickering said, as his eyes caressed her lovely face.  He noticed both her arms were wrapped tightly around Victor's, and that she looked up at him with such commitment that it made his cynical view of love soften.  Reminding him bittersweetly of how he had felt once, a very long time ago.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #8
    Max Brooks
    “No tienes que ser el puto Sun Tzu para saber que la verdadera batalla no consiste en matar, ni siquiera en herir al otro, sino en asustarlos lo suficiente para que lo deje.”
    Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

  • #9
    Kathleen Zamboni McCormick
    “Mary’s supposed to be the opposite of Eve, but I bet she had childbirth pain just like everyone else.”
    Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

  • #10
    Spencer Johnson
    “The Quicker You Let Go
    Of Old Cheese,
    The Sooner You Find
    New Cheese.”
    Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

  • #11
    Italo Calvino
    “Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”
    Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

  • #12
    Therisa Peimer
    “Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #13
    “Maybe that’s how it has to be. Maybe there is no diplomatic solution for this? Perhaps one of them has to die?”
    Cade Mengler, The Companions

  • #14
    Ami Loper
    “A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #15
    Andri E. Elia
    “The last kiss was the kiss goodbye.”
    Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

  • #16
    Sara Pascoe
    “She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #17
    Katherine Paterson
    “was appalled that I was heading across the world for four years, asked me: “How could you do this to your mother?” “Well,” I answered, “she did it to her mother.” But when my parents went to China it was different.”
    Katherine Paterson, Stories of My Life

  • #18
    Michael Crichton
    “She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.”
    Michael Crichton, Micro

  • #19
    Trevor Alan Foris
    “Trad moves to get a better view of the water falling in a continuous, glistening cascade from the uppermost level of the atrium to the lagoon below.”
    Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

  • #20
    Susanna Clarke
    “To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell



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