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  • #1
    K.  Ritz
    “Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #2
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #3
    Merlin Franco
    “As the wise men say, the key to happiness is to have a heart as pure as a child’s—a heart that sees the world as a child sees, a heart that smiles and cries like a child. For such a heart will also sleep like a child.”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #4
    Edward        Williams
    “was he connected to the hitman? I didn't worry about it”
    Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

  • #5
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #6
    Therisa Peimer
    “A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied with a smirk.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #7
    Ami Loper
    “Anything less than true companionship with God leaves us feeling on the fringes, close but not close enough.”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Günter Grass
    “We seemed to have arrived at a reality only to abandon it or exchange it for something that claimed to be another reality.”
    Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion

  • #10
    “I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
    James V. Hart, Bram Stoker's Dracula

  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “You may write me down in history
    With your bitter, twisted lies,
    You may tread me in the very dirt
    But still, like dust, I'll rise.

    Does my sassiness upset you?
    Why are you beset with gloom?
    'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
    Pumping in my living room.

    Just like moons and like suns,
    With the certainty of tides,
    Just like hopes springing high,
    Still I'll rise.

    Did you want to see me broken?
    Bowed head and lowered eyes?
    Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
    Weakened by my soulful cries.

    Does my haughtiness offend you?
    Don't you take it awful hard
    'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
    Diggin' in my own back yard.

    You may shoot me with your words,
    You may cut me with your eyes,
    You may kill me with your hatefulness,
    But still, like air, I'll rise.

    Does my sexiness upset you?
    Does it come as a surprise
    That I dance like I've got diamonds
    At the meeting of my thighs?

    Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #12
    James Herriot
    “Why had I entered this profession? I could have gone in for something easier and gentler—like coalmining or lumberjacking.”
    James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful

  • #13
    Nelson Mandela
    “Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment.”
    Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

  • #14
    Mark Bowden
    “...but the rank and file had sized up the coming fight inside the Citadel as the shit storm to end all shit storms.”
    Mark Bowden, Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam



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