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  • #1
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him.  She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #2
    “When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #3
    Ami Loper
    “The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #4
    “But when people talk about it they call it The Zombie Room.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #5
    Merlin Franco
    “The footpath curves right, and my home’s roof ridge is visible through the coconut fronds. A streak of happiness lights up in my heart. I know it’s just a building, but I hear its frantic call, reaching out to me like a mother cow that has lost its calf. Is this what differentiates a home from a house—the life in the former, the soul breathed in by my grandparents, my parents, and me?”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #6
    Therisa Peimer
    “Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
    "Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
    "My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
    "It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss." 
    "What did you do to help her get through it?" 
    Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
    Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #7
    Robert         Reid
    “Aaron wondered if the Sofanomin had also lulled him to sleep. He could feel the faint remnants of a strange dream; weird people in odd clothing, peculiar carriages that moved although no horses pulled them”
    Robert Reid, The Empress:

  • #8
    Paul A. Barra
    “His blazing red filly switched leads and spurted forward, flattening out and making up ground. Francine left the other horses behind and lunged after Miss Smith. Was there enough track left for her to catch the leader?”
    Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

  • #9
    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “Esse vagar sem rumo pelos caminhos de nossa Maiúscula América me transformou mais do que me dei conta.”
    Ernesto Che Guevara, De moto pela América do Sul: Diários de viagem

  • #10
    Walter Farley
    “You've never in your life seen a horse run so fast! He's all power-all beauty.”
    Walter Farley, The Black Stallion

  • #11
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Somos culpables de haber destruido muchos dones de la naturaleza y de haber perdido toda espiritualidad.”
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, La muerte: un amanecer (Biblioteca Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)

  • #12
    John Stuart Mill
    “The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.”
    John Stuart Mill

  • #13
    Euripides
    “But my pain’s a fair price, to take away your smile.”
    Euripides, Medea

  • #14
    Dashiell Hammett
    “I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. I didn't think anything of what he had done to the city's name. Later I heard men who could manage their r's give it the same pronunciation. I still didn't see anything in it but the meaningless sort of humor that used to make richardsnary the thieves' word for dictionary. A few years later I went to Personville and learned better.”
    Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest



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