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  • #1
    Michael              Parker
    “For all Conor Lenihan cared it could have been Osama Bin Laden who had organised the whole thing. He was simply a mercenary doing a job of work.”
    Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

  • #2
    Susan  Rowland
    “We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #3
    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

  • #4
    Alan    Bradley
    “Life was about making sense out of the insensible. A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must’ve been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must’ve been dreaming, you’re talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #5
    K.  Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #6
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #7
    Max Nowaz
    “A magic Adam never knew existed, yet he must somehow control it to survive.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #8
    Sybrina Durant
    “Hydrogen is used in more compounds (nearly 100) than any other element because it can form bonds with almost all metals, metalloids, and non-metals. Some of the most common hydrogen compounds are water (H2O), Hydrogen Peroxide (H202) and table sugar (C12H220111)”
    Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically by the Metal Horn Unicorns

  • #9
    David Guterson
    “Her mother, clearly, was serene and unruffled, and her voice carried the strength of truth. Hatsue fell silent, ashamed of herself. Who was she to say how she felt? What she felt remained a mystery, she felt a thousand things at once, she could not unravel the thread of her feelings with enough certainty to speak with any accuracy. Her mother was right, silence was better. It was something—one thing—she knew with clarity.”
    David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

  • #10
    Dave Eggers
    “The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken.”
    Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

  • #11
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #12
    Justin Cronin
    “All things passed away. Even the earth itself, the sky and the river and the stars he loved, would, one day, come to the end of their existence. But it was not a thing to be feared; such was the bittersweet beauty of life. He”
    Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

  • #13
    James Dashner
    “There are no rules. There are no guidelines. You have few supplies, and there’s nothing to help you along the way. Go through the Flat Trans at the time indicated. Find open air. Go one hundred miles, directly north, to the safe haven. Make it or die.”
    James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

  • #14
    Randy Pausch
    “He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture



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