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  • #1
    Susan  Rowland
    “Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #2
    Barry Kirwan
    “Sally wiped the blood from Anderson’s mouth with her sleeve. She spoke to him, but also loud enough for all to hear. ‘Go find your son, Mr Anderson. This is our war now.”
    Barry Kirwan, When the children come

  • #3
    “By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
    Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

  • #4
    Yvonne Korshak
    “It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #5
    Nancy O'Meara
    “The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.”
    Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions

  • #6
    Michael G. Kramer
    “The April forced ‘Resettlement’ of the villages of Long Phuoc, and Long Tan inflamed the already seething hatred of foreigners by the local Vietnamese people. They had only recently removed the French yoke after almost a century of cruel and repressive French rule. Now here were the Americans and their allies who in the Vietnamese eyes were continuing to do as the French had done before them. Into this sort of environment of hate, the Australian soldiers were sent to complete what the Americans had started.”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

  • #7
    Frank  Lambert
    “Staring at the wraith’s left hand, Zam saw a stump where its index finger should have been and knew then that the severed finger moving around in his pocket belonged to the wraith.”
    Frank Lambert, Xyz

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Nicole Krauss
    “He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #10
    Bill Watterson
    “Leave it to a girl to take all the fun out of sex discrimination.”
    Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

  • #11
    Rachel Caine
    “This near enough? Whatcha gonna do, doll girl? Cry all over me?"
    Claire hid her eyes as the biker reached out for Eve with one tattooed hand.
    No," Eve said breathlessly. "I'm going to let my boyfriend beat the crap out of you."
    There was a dull thunk of wood meeting flesh, and a howl. Then another, much harder thunk, and a crash as a body hit the floor.
    The biker was down. Claire stared at him in disbelief, then looked past him, to the figure standing there with the field hockey stick in both hands.
    Michael Glass.”
    Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls' Dance

  • #12
    Art Spiegelman
    “Життя завжди стає на бік життя, а жертв звинувачують в усьому. Але виживали не найкращі, і гинули теж не найкращі. Це все випадковість!”
    Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world – wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.

    We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #14
    Lisa See
    “كلُّ من يقولُ إن النساء لا يتمتعن بنفوذ على قرارات أزواجهن يرتكبُ خطأ فادحًا و غبيًا”
    Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

  • #15
    Susan  Rowland
    “She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #16
    “Fair enough, that's what most people look for to begin with, but money can be a sliding scale, the more you have, the more you want, the more you need,' McBlane said as he sharpened the ash on the tip of his cigar into a point against the rim of the ashtray. It gave him the appearance of wielding a dagger as he gestured with his cigar holding hand.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #17
    Raz Mihal
    “Only inside can you do something about it, but outside, it’s impossible.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #18
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
    Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

  • #19
    Sherman Kennon
    “Still I chase the wind
           and float as a gentle breeze
            up among the stars
            then descending
            as a bird down amidst the trees.”
    Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

  • #20
    Alan    Bradley
    “Think about it this way—if we die together, you won’t have to mourn me.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #21
    Jody    Summers
    “Valerie watched him pull away before turning to go inside. Her feelings
    were a painful contradiction. On the one hand, she was deathly afraid
    of a man whom she was so attracted to as to barely be able to maintain
    control when she was around him, on the other hand, that very attraction
    and loss of control signaled what she had longed for her whole life,
    someone she could fall irretrievably in love with. She was delicately balanced
    on the tightrope of some of her most basic personality traits and
    her deepest desires. It was a precarious trap for her, and one she wasn’t
    going to be able to easily resolve. Unfortunately, the result for Jeremy
    was a seesaw of her reactions to him.
    What the hell am I thinking, she asked herself as she slowly closed her
    apartment door. For now, her fears were winning the battle against her
    heart.”
    Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

  • #22
    Andri E. Elia
    “I need a minute.”
    Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

  • #23
    K.  Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #24
    Katherine Dunn
    “The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
    Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

  • #25
    Lloyd C. Douglas
    “A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can’t have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things.”
    Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

  • #26
    Salman Rushdie
    “Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.”
    Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence
    tags: women

  • #27
    Milan Kundera
    “I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.”
    Milan Kundera, Immortality
    tags: hate

  • #28
    David Guterson
    “The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably.”
    David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars

  • #29
    Rohith S. Katbamna
    “Most nights, her body was commerce. She traded vacuous affection for survival. Her wounded soul, bandaged by the deceptive nature of the
    Zone had served no purpose in aiding her.”
    Rohith S. Katbamna, Down and Rising



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