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  • #1
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “She must feel like Lucifer’s frigid breath is running down the back of her delicate neck.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #2
    Claudia   Clark
    “Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the second time during their press conference, the clicking sounds of the cameras was deafening.”
    Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

  • #3
    Tom  Baldwin
    “Catching the wrong Fish is unrewarding.”
    Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

  • #4
    Karl Braungart
    “We have three sets of passports. Two are Egyptian with false names.”
    Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

  • #5
    C. Toni Graham
    “Relax into your creativity. Allow your mind to paint the pictures of words and colors, images and lines, rhythm and melodies. Lean into your passion without strife and allow your heart to sing as you create. Share your gifts with the world as we all deserve to absorb the beauty and awes of art.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #6
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Adam offered her a heart-melting smile and a wink, then headed for the door. With his hand on the door, he paused and turned back.
    Heidi’s eyes jumped up from his butt to his face.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

  • #7
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes
    “When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

  • #8
    Gregory Dickow
    “Your Heavenly Father’s love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.”
    Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

  • #9
    “In contrast, the gratification and education received from Sanjit’s classes is slow burning, personal, and in a changing world allegedly becoming more attuned to and obsessed with requiring that money spent – especially on education – must yield tangible results, what many would view as a paradoxical dynamic nevertheless persists there, near Park Circus, Kolkata. No grades, no forced accountability, all voluntary learning.”
    Colin Phelan, The Local School

  • #10
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #11
    Wally Lamb
    “Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.”
    Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

  • #12
    Milan Kundera
    “Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.”
    Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

  • #13
    Lawrence Hill
    “Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place.”
    Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

  • #14
    Markus Zusak
    “Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #15
    “When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience." ”
    John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

  • #16
    Patrick G. Cox
    “The lights came up as Dylan Raddeck walked nonchalantly into the room. As expected he stopped, staring at his killer …
    Eyes fixed on her target, Bast hesitated as James Heron appeared behind him. For a fraction of a second too long, she wavered, unable to decide her target, then she snarled, and fired a series of the needles at Radeck, seeing them strike exactly at her aiming point. The only problem was that he didn’t go down. Nor did Heron. Instead they stepped nimbly aside and an armoured figure behind them got off an accurate shot. It wasn’t a killing shot. It was intended to disable and disarm her—Mr Brown was specific, he wanted her alive. Unfortunately the prosthetics she wore to disguise her anatomy absorbed most of the paralysing agent.
    She screamed in frustration as she went down. With an effort, she turned her needle projector on herself, and fired.”
    Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray

  • #17
    Sybrina Durant
    “Lacing and knotting is not just for shoes. Looping and tying are skills you can use.”
    Sybrina Durant, Boo's Shoes - A Rabbit and Fox Story: Learn To Tie Shoelaces

  • #18
    Ajay Agrawal
    “What does regression do? It finds a prediction based on the average of what has occurred in the past. For instance, if all you have to go on to determine whether it is going to rain tomorrow is what happened each day last week, your best guess might be an average. If it rained on two of the last seven days, you might predict that the probability of rain tomorrow is around two in seven, or 29 percent. Much of what we know about prediction has been making our calculations of the average better by building models that can take in more data about the context.”
    Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

  • #19
    Steven Decker
    “Anthropology is the science of human beings,” she said.”
    Steven Decker, Time Chain: A Time Travel Novel

  • #20
    Karl Braungart
    “You understand, gentlemen,” explained Jabir, “that you are working under my supervision?”
    Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

  • #21
    Dean Mafako
    “They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?”
    DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

  • #22
    Shirley Jackson
    “Do you always go where you’re not wanted?” Eleanor smiled placidly. “I’ve never been wanted anywhere,” she said.”
    Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

  • #23
    Mary  Stewart
    “Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
    Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

  • #24
    Carl Sagan
    “Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • #25
    Eric Carle
    “On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon

    That night he had a stomach ache.”
    Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

  • #26
    Jon Krakauer
    “At eighteen, in a dream, he saw himself plodding through jungles, chinning up the ledges of cliffs, wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams. The peculiar thing about Everett Ruess was that he went out and did the things he dreamed about, not simply for a two-weeks’ vacation in the civilized and trimmed wonderlands, but for months and years in the very midst of wonder...”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #27
    Cormac McCarthy
    “The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
    Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses



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