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  • #1
    “An end to questions or an end to life, she said to herself as she raced towards the unknown.”
    Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

  • #2
    Nancy O'Meara
    “The point is to be compassionately, not cruelly, honest. Tell the person what you have heard that worries you. Allow him to respond. You may be surprised at how much sense his answers make.”
    Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions

  • #3
    Frank  Lambert
    “You are thinking in human terms again,
    and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...
    Jarle Heavyfoot”
    Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

  • #4
    Jeffrey S.  Stephens
    “Is it you are going to buy me dinner twice in one week?”
    Jeffrey S. Stephens

  • #5
    Michael              Parker
    “Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
    Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

  • #6
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Pericles let a moment pass, then another. The Spartans needed time to set in balance the risks of accepting the offer and the joys of being rich. Not as much time as he’d expected, though.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #7
    Yvonne Korshak
    “As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #8
    “Maeve O’Shaughnessy was one of those Americans, influenced by national hero and Nazi sympathizer Charles Lindbergh, who had been against becoming involved in the war.”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #9
    Frank  Lambert
    “Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
    Frank Lambert, Xyz

  • #10
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Nearing the Riefler's big red brick house he could see the yellow light spill out on the galerie Yvonne had insisted her German husband wrap around the house.  There was a tightening in Victor's chest.  It happened to him whenever he got close to the Riefler's house, or church on Sunday- anytime he thought he might catch a glimpse of Celena.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    Nancy Omeara
    “Convincing all nations in the civilized world to agree that any investments into these corporations should be tax-free was not an easy task. Tea with the Queen didn’t quite cut it. Saki with the Japanese Prime Minister was pleasant, but not quite enough. We had to offer major trade concessions to our partner nations to bring them to the negotiating table. In retrospect, it was a small price to pay. The talks earned me the title of “The Great Negotiator.” I didn't mind.”
    Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

  • #13
    Lois Lowry
    “I wish I could have a cupcake,”
    Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

  • #14
    Rainbow Rowell
    “But it was a mistake thinking of that as an end. There is no end. Bad things happen, and then they stop, but they keep on wreaking havoc inside of people.”
    Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son

  • #15
    Malcolm X
    “I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
    Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • #16
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “Strictly speaking, she was out of order. This dear 0-, how shall 1 say it?
    The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her tongue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts-at any rate not the reverse.”
    Zamyatin E., We

  • #17
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”
    Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart

  • #18
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever;”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon



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