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  • #1
    Molly Arbuthnott
    “If you’re ever stuck for an idea try eating a peanut.”
    Molly Arbuthnott, Peanut the Hamster

  • #2
    Rebecca Rosenberg
    “L'amour est aveugle”
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Madame Pommery, Creator of Brut Champagne

  • #3
    J.B. Lion
    “HANG THE LAW AND FUCK THE RULES! Where is your love for others? Where is your compassion? All these warriors want is a chance to serve. Doesn’t their love supersede your rules?”
    J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

  • #4
    Nancy Omeara
    “The requirement for anyone running for elected office to have held a position of public service, such as fireman, school teacher, librarian, scout leader, or policeman was never actually passed into law.
    Still the range of day jobs that some of our Congress people now hold are pretty amazing.
    Somehow these days a background as a lawyer is a big minus.”
    Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

  • #5
    “With Finn, Vic, and Maeve shooting darts at him, Buster thought better of bellyaching and took off down the street with Finn.”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #6
    K.  Ritz
    “Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #7
    John Rachel
    “Even adults who were stiffened by the starch of their miserable lives, for whom breaking the stony discipline of austere and judgmental intolerance was usually off the table, melted in the magical luminescence and energetic charm of the pre-pubescent Ruka.”
    John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

  • #8
    Truman Capote
    “Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.”
    Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

  • #9
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.”
    Scott Westerfeld

  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “everything happens for a reason.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #11
    Katherine Paterson
    “Jess’s feelings about Leslie’s father poked up like a canker sore. You keep biting it, and it gets bigger and worse instead of better.”
    Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.”
    Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

  • #13
    “The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.”
    Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

  • #14
    Max Nowaz
    “Are you really a reporter?” asked Brown.
“You already asked me that. Come back to Levita, take the pardon.”
 “I doubt I’ll live long enough to get there,” said Brown bitterly.
“I hope you survive. You are a fighter. And we have the antidote for your habit on
Levita. I suggest you take a vacation. There’s nothing much that’s going to happen here.”
With that she left, leaving Brown more confused than ever.
He was a father, he had a son. And, the Levitians had a cure for his drug-addled body.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #15
    George Eliot
    “We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.”
    George Eliot, The Lifted Veil

  • #16
    J.D. Salinger
    “She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #17
    Vincent Panettiere
    “Sneering has gotten a bad rap, he thought, walking rapidly up the hill from his car. All that unleashed adrenaline got his legs pumping. Why is it that only villains are allowed to sneer? Surely such a display of disapproval could be used to better all humankind. If there was more sneering in the world, people might think before they acted.”
    Vincent Panettiere, Shared Sorrows

  • #18
    James W. Loewen
    “Understanding our past is central to our ability to understand ourselves and the world around us.”
    James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong

  • #19
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude."

    (Letter to Mimi Romanelli, May 11, 1910)”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke, a Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus



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