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  • #1
    “My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #2
    K.  Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #3
    Steven Decker
    “Edward unlocked a drawer of his desk where he kept valuables, opened it, and withdrew the Buck knife Amelia had given him a few days after he’d turned eighteen, about a month before they were to be married. He stared straight ahead, feeling its weight in his hand. He looked down at the knife, opened it, and scraped his finger lightly across the blade. Still sharp. He had used it for only a month, but after Amelia left him at the altar, he stored it away, rarely touching it. Today, however, he wanted to remember the pain.”
    Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

  • #4
    Sara Pascoe
    “Love is described like GOD.”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #5
    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #6
    Shafter Bailey
    “Cindy, when you went to sleep this night, you did not know you would take the first step of the proverbial thousand-mile journey before the next dawn. You will need genuine strength for each step. Remember, truth is the only source of genuine strength on planet Earth.”
    Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

  • #7
    “The wilderness is uncomfortable, pushes your limits and is unavoidable.”
    Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles

  • #8
    T.S. Eliot
    “In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #9
    John Irving
    “Keep passing the open windows.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #10
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

  • #11
    Tracy Chevalier
    “It made me feel odd looking at that eye, like there was a world of curiosities I didn’t know about: crocodiles with huge eyes and snakes with no heads and thunderbolts God threw down that turned to stone. Sometimes I got that hollowed-out feeling too when looking at a sky full of stars or into the deep water the few times I went out in a boat, and I didn’t like it: it was as if the world were too strange for me ever to understand it.”
    Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures

  • #12
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you?”
    Stevenson, Robert Louis

  • #13
    J.K. Rowling
    “According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix



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