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  • #1
    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #2
    Susan  Rowland
    “You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.”
    [Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary.
    “And you? What’s your reason to hate me?”
    Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.”
    Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?”
    Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #3
    J.K. Franko
    “This book is dedicated to my children, Pi, Coco, and Jay. When your grandkids are old enough to read this book, tell them how much I loved you.”
    J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye

  • #4
    Barry Kirwan
    “He knew what he was doing – justifying an atrocity. But in war, that’s what always happened. Your red lines – those you swore to defend at all costs when you signed up – shifted, until finally none worth fighting for remained. PTSD wasn’t just about what happened to you; it was about what you did.”
    Barry Kirwan, When the children come

  • #5
    Aimee Cabo Nikolov
    “God is the Cure, Love is the Answer”
    Aimee Cabo Nikolov, God is the Cure, Love is the Answer : A Memoir

  • #6
    Steven Decker
    “Ancient Chinese believe that when you dream, your soul leaves your body and travels to dream world. In dream world, there is no time. No past, no present, no future. When you remember dreams, it is very important to interpret those dreams because dreams you remember are very important to your future.”
    Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

  • #7
    Dean Mafako
    “When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!”
    DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

  • #8
    Michael G. Kramer
    “  “I am running back my tent to get my sub-machinegun. There are too many Noggies to kill using a pistol!” He then ran to where his scrape was and returned with the weapon.”
    Michael G. Kramer

  • #9
    P.D. Eastman
    “It's a party. A big Dog Party.”
    P.D. Eastman

  • #10
    Nikolas Schreck
    “Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.”
    Nikolas Schreck

  • #11
    “When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
    Andrew Mann, Such Unfortunates

  • #12
    Joseph Heller
    “Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #13
    Sara Pascoe
    “Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #14
    Kenneth Schmitt
    “Humans emit biophotons, which can be released through mental intention and can stimulate cell-to-cell communication and DNA activity. Thus we are beings of light, and the quantum state in which we are the brightest is in our heart energy. This is most excited by love, joy and compassion.”
    Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

  • #15
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    Michael G. Kramer

  • #16
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Tenderly he reached for her and lightly took her hand, lifted it, and touched it to his lips.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #17
    Wallace Stegner
    “You can’t be close to the mortality of friends without being brought to think of your own.”
    Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

  • #18
    John Green
    “That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #19
    Tracy Chevalier
    “Funny, I didn't think much about apples fore we came to the Black Swamp. when I was growin up we had an orchard like everybody else but I didn't pay it no attention cept when the blossom was out in May. Then Id go and lie there smellin some sweet perfume and listenin to the bees hum so happy cause they had flowers to play with. That was where James and I lay our first time together. I shouldve known then he wasnt for me. He was so busy inspectin my familys trees and askin how old each was - like I would know - and what the fruit was like (Juicy like me, I said) that finally I had to unbutton my dress myself. That shut him up a while.”
    Tracy Chevalier, At the Edge of the Orchard
    tags: apples

  • #20
    Robert Frost
    “We shall be known by the delicacy of where we stop short.”
    Robert Frost

  • #21
    C. Toni Graham
    “May your day be filled with joy with a sprinkling of positivity on top.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #22
    Jojo Moyes
    “Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.”
    Jojo Moyes



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