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  • #1
    Lotchie Burton
    “Darling, I don’t have friends. Those are mannequins in masquerade. Ours is a parasitic relationship. They need the appearance of prestige, affluence and power. I need an entourage. A queen is nothing without her court.”
    Lotchie Burton, Dante's Revenge

  • #2
    K.  Ritz
    “At what point does faith become insanity?”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “It was amazing how a crisis could concentrate some minds while others went to pieces. Things had gone disastrously wrong in the last few days for Adam. His only worry before finding the book had been how to keep his girlfriend Linda without marrying her in the process. A contest he had lost.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #4
    “There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with
its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #5
    “Make no mistake: You will be challenged at some point in time. We all are. That’s just life.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #6
    Susan  Rowland
    “But this Scroll too has magical properties. From the moment I first saw it, the paper warmed to my touch. I know it came alive as I held it. Did you know there’s a serpent on the back? Some say it’s a dragon. It winked at me. Its lashes are gold.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #7
    Marcel Proust
    “In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #8
    David Guterson
    “To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion—and a horrifying one.”
    David Guterson, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense – A Teacher's Honest Guide to Alternative Education for Parents

  • #9
    James Frey
    “Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #10
    Neal Stephenson
    “She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.”
    Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

  • #11
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives." (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)”
    Sue Monk Kidd



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