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    Carl Novakovich
    “Promise me, if this is the end of us, let it be the beginning of the revolution.”
    Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

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    Richard  Polak
    “What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire, not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, won’t fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true “why” will.”
    Richard Polak

  • #3
    Behcet Kaya
    “911. What is your emergency?”
    “Dead body.”
    “You’ll have to speak up. I can’t hear you.”
    “There’s a dead body in the woods!”
    “Where are you located?”
    “I’m on one of the trails off Summit Road in Wild Oaks Mountain Park. I’m near the summit.”
    “Can you be more specific?”
    “No, I can’t! Just get someone here!”
    Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

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    Wendy E. Slater
    “It is in the healing of self-blame and judgement, that the self is liberated from the constraints of binding emotions...And you come to remember your true authentic self." © 2015 W.E. Slater”
    Wendy E. Slater, Into the Hearth, Poems-Volume 14

  • #5
    M.R. Noble
    “You can burn brighter than they can, if you have too.”
    M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

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    Jack London
    “He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
    Jack London, The Call of the Wild

  • #7
    Lois Lowry
    “Then, recalling what he had said, she turned to him eagerly. “What’s my surprise?”

    Most Ancient turned and reached for something that was behind him. He picked it up and placed it in her arms, and it looked up at her with wide, curious eyes. It was what she had once been: tiny, a wisp of a thing, with a mischievous smile and a trusting, visible heart.

    “Oh!” she cried. She hugged it to her, against her badge. “What’s its name?”

    “Ask it,” Most Ancient suggested.

    “Who are you?” she asked the diminutive, transparent creature in her arms, keeping her voice calm so that it wouldn’t be scared.

    “New Littlest,” it told her.

    She was puzzled and almost frightened at first. The she thought, Of course! Most Ancient could not have always have been Most Ancient, and Thin Elderly must once have been something else. Even Fastidious – well, maybe not. Perhaps she had always been Fastidious.

    She cradled New Littlest, moving her hands as gently as possible around the fragile little thing, and turned back to ask Most Ancient what she needed to know.

    “Who am I now?”

    “Gossamer,” he told her.”
    Lois Lowry (Author)

  • #8
    T.S. Eliot
    “If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #9
    D.H. Lawrence
    “It's no good trying to get rid of your aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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    Emem Uko
    “When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small?”
    Emem Uko

  • #11
    Carson McCullers
    “The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.”
    Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

  • #12
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “Keep those eyes of yours, mate, wide-fucking-open. Never know when it’s watching.”
    Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

  • #13
    Susan  Rowland
    “The girl flinched, even lying down. Mary continued through gritted teeth. “Murder can’t be walked away from. Just like you can’t walk away from Viktor. He’ll find you if you run. Richard can’t protect you if Viktor believes you have his babies.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #14
    “A uniformed cop around 6’4” with pock marked face squinted, “Looky here, if it ain’t one a the bad seed O’Shaughnessy’s, female version.”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #15
    Raz Mihal
    “I dream of times when people will be happy living in eternal connection with the divine love.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #16
    “The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #17
    Steven Decker
    “We’re both as tall as most men here in 1801, so we can make it work.”
    Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “One thing that became very clear during my own war service is that those who are actively taking part in war-like activities very seldom hate their former enemies. The reverse is the case with a great respect developing among the veterans, even if they happened to be on opposing sides.”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

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    Alan    Bradley
    “When you’re in The System, like after being arrested, you’re no longer a participant. You’re being processed. Instead of an easy to ignore, well-greased cog, you become a sharp edge that needs to be ground down.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #20
    Willa Cather
    “I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.”
    Willa Cather, The Selected Letters

  • #21
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “If any thing connected with the hardness of the human heart could surprise us, it surely would be the indifference with which men live on, engrossed by their worldly objects, amid the sublime natural phenomena that so eloquently and unceasingly speak to their imaginations, affections, and judgments.”
    James Fenimore Cooper

  • #22
    Ally Condie
    “It's strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
    Ally Condie, Matched

  • #23
    James Clavell
    “Vietnam’s going to be a big problem for your government unless it’s very smart.” Bartlett said confidently, “Thank God it is. JFK handled Cuba. He’ll handle Vietnam too. He made the Big K back off there and he can do it again. We won that time. The Soviets took their missiles out.”
    James Clavell, Noble House

  • #24
    Norton Juster
    “I call myself seven or eight times a day just to see how I am.'

    'How are you?' he asked politely.

    'Not very well, I'm afraid.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #25
    Eric Schlosser
    “As part of that administrative process, Butler decided to look at every single target in the SIOP, and for weeks he carefully scrutinized the thousands of desired ground zeros. He found bridges and railways and roads in the middle of nowhere targeted with multiple warheads, to assure their destruction. Hundreds of nuclear warheads would hit Moscow—dozens of them aimed at a single radar installation outside the city. During his previous job working for the Joint Chiefs, Butler had dealt with targeting issues and the damage criteria for nuclear weapons. He was hardly naive. But the days and weeks spent going through the SIOP, page by page, deeply affected him. For more than forty years, efforts to tame the SIOP, to limit it, reduce it, make it appear logical and reasonable, had failed. “With the possible exception of the Soviet nuclear war plan, this was the single most absurd and irresponsible document I had ever reviewed in my life,” General Butler later recalled. “I came to fully appreciate the truth . . . we escaped the Cold War without a nuclear holocaust by some combination of skill, luck, and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion.”
    Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

  • #26
    Mark   Ellis
    “Thinking about the weather was one way of shutting out of his mind the appalling bloody human mess sprawled out over the bed of this seedy hotel room in central London. The sight and smell was sickening - even to a hardened detective like him. Felling the bile rising in his throat again, he hurried out into the dimly lit corridor. “Where are you, Sergeant? Is the doctor here yet?”
    Mark Ellis, The French Spy

  • #27
    Gary Clemenceau
    “Bedouins believe their Heaven to be a lush paradise of trees and running water; mine was no different, though my sprinklers were timed.”
    Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

  • #28
    “We are humiliated and disillusioned once again by our own countrymen because they attempt to trample on us, which increases our isolation and unimportance.”
    Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

  • #29
    H. Meadow Hopewell
    “His chest protruded like a deprived marigold craning its petals to soak in the sun.”
    H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

  • #30
    Michael G. Kramer
    “  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
    Michael G. Kramer



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