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  • #1
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death rides on all of our shoulders from the day we are born.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #2
    “Missing: A teenaged girl with lanky, blonde hair and a sunburst tattoo on her cheek. The holographic posters, brighter than day itself, lit up the air on every block of Main Street.”
    Amy L. Bernstein, The Potrero Complex

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #4
    “Again, the exercise begins. For me, the American in me, the city of Detroit comes to mind. A house, once within the bustling city, now lies on the outskirts. Industry has come and gone, and the car manufacturers have relocated. I recall images of the rough lifestyles south of 8 Mile. The city’s borders have changed. Post-apocalyptic, long grasses sway with the wind. The house is melancholy and lonely. The owners: maybe there, maybe not.”
    Colin Phelan, The Local School

  • #5
    Tom  Baldwin
    “I’ve watched hundreds of deed transfers take place right here on the steps of the Registry,” Michele mused. “At those moments of transfer, I’ve seen in the eyes of desperate sellers an emotional reconciliation of irrevocably relinquishing a homestead, a treasured dominion, willingly or otherwise. Perhaps all these deeds, Mr. Geoffrey…perhaps they, too, have their own soul, a predilection that would tell me more than what they say if only I had the capacity to ask.”
    Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Gregory Dickow
    “What you focus on and the way you think will determine the way you live.”
    Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

  • #8
    Claudia   Clark
    “Then, in an unusual moment, she grew emotional, which left little doubt about the level of profound respect and admiration Merkel had for her American colleague:
    ‘So eight years are coming to a close.  This is the last visit of (President) Barack Obama to our country…I am very glad that he chose Germany as one of the stopovers on this trip…Thank you for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship. So let me again pay tribute to what we’ve been able to achieve, to what we discussed, to what we were able to bring about in difficult hours.”
    Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

  • #9
    Harvey Havel
    “It seemed as though he would never pull free, until he awoke one morning feeling kind of awkward, as though his hands had been lopped off by some Arabian sword during a routine druggie blackout, and in their place, pale and membranous hands that had been fit to his wrists by aliens that took him up while he slept and then brought him back down – all of it in an effort to help him move up to where he belonged in society.”
    Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

  • #10
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “The big question was, what all was this society up to? They’d certainly been in and out of his office, as well as accidently running into him all around town. Had he inadvertently missed what this group of ladies knew? And worse yet, had he given himself away?”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

  • #11
    Evelyn Waugh
    “If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.”
    Evelyn Waugh

  • #12
    Jane Smiley
    “Opa used to tease her. He would open her mouth and look at her teeth, like she was a horse. Then he would say, ‘Callie, you are more than ten and less than a hundred.’ Well, she was a poor girl, in the end.”
    Jane Smiley, Some Luck

  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #14
    Dr. Seuss
    “Kid, you'll move mountains.”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #15
    Thomas Hardy
    “If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”
    Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree

  • #16
    John Grogan
    “Whatever false sense of security the contraption had once offered us was gone. Each time we left, even for a half hour, we wondered whether this would be the time that our manic inmate would bust out and go on another couch-shredding, wall-gouging, door-eating rampage. So much for peace of mind.”
    John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

  • #17
    “Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #18
    Sheridan  Brown
    “Mr. Pugh turned bright red. His cheeks puffed up like the galls of shad from the nearby river. His green- monster eyes rolled around his face, and he pounded both fists down on the table, and through grinding teeth and snorting gasps hollered, “INDEED NOT, MISS KNAPP! Slaves are not allowed to read and write. We have you here with good and steady pay to instruct our children and nothing else. Going near that boy, or any other slave, with chalk or book learnin’ is strictly forbidden! Do you understand me?”
    Sheridan Brown, The Viola Factor

  • #19
    K.  Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #20
    Larada Horner-Miller
    “All four of us gasped at the same time—the tree reached the ceiling and curled down at least a foot! What were we to do now?”
    Larada Horner-Miller, Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir

  • #21
    Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
    “Perceptions of unfairness operate on a continuum”
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

  • #22
    Mary Norton
    “Oh, I know Papa is a wonderful borrower. I know we’ve managed to stay when all the others have gone. But what has it done for us, in the end? I don’t think it’s so clever to live on alone, for ever and ever, in a great, big, half-empty house; under the floor, with no one to talk to, no one to play with, nothing to see but dust and passages, no light but candlelight and firelight and what comes through the cracks.”
    Mary Norton, The Borrowers

  • #23
    Betty  Smith
    “She looked at the nurse. To Francie, all women were mamas like her own mother and Aunt Sissy and Aunt Evy. She thought the nurse might say something like:
    "Maybe this little girl's mother works and didn't have time to wash her good this morning," or, "You know how it is, Doctor, children will play in dirt." But what the nurse actually said was, "I
    know. Isn't it terrible? I sympathize with you, Doctor. There is no excuse for these people living in filth."

    A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot-strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it
    and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel up climb. The nurse had chosen the forgetting way. Yet, as she stood there, she knew that years later she would be haunted by the sorrow in the face of that starveling child and that she would wish bitterly that she had said a comforting word then and done something towards the saving of her immortal soul. She had the knowledge that she was small but she lacked the
    courage to be otherwise.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #24
    Gregory David Roberts
    “It's not just the body that must survive a jail term: the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it.”
    Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

  • #25
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Kurt said, “I have always wanted to wipe that self-satisfied smug look from the face of thee Prussian Pickle!”
    Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

  • #26
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Alexander never did what he said, Cesare never said what he did.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli

  • #27
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Remove the document—and you remove the man.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov

  • #28
    Michael G. Kramer
    “On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.

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

  • #29
    C. Toni Graham
    “Inspiration ignites the spark of magic. Creativity is magic.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #30
    “The Times
    2 July 1952
    WAS BRITISH BARONESS WORKING FOR THE NAZIS IN PARIS?
    By Philip Bing-Wallace
    It was alleged that Baroness Freya Saumures (who claimed to be of Swedish descent but is a British subject) was one of the many women that entertained the Gestapo and SS during the occupation of Paris, a jury was told. At the baroness’s trial today, the Old Bailey heard Daniel Merrick-James QC, prosecuting council, astonish the jury by revealing that Baroness Freya Saumures allegedly worked with the Nazis throughout the Nazi occupation of Paris.
    There was a photograph of a woman in a headscarf and dark glasses, alongside a tall dark-haired man who had a protective arm around her, his face shielded by his hand. A description beneath the image read: Baroness Saumures with her husband, Baron Ferdinand Saumures, outside the Old Bailey after her acquittal.
    Alec could not see her face fully, but the picture of the baron, even partially obscured, certainly looked very like the man lying dead in the Battersea Park Road crypt. Alec read on.
    When Mr Merrick-James sat, a clerk of the court handed the judge, Justice Henry Folks, a note. The judge then asked the court to be cleared. Twenty minutes later, the court was reconvened. Justice Folks announced to the jury that the prosecution had dropped all charges and that Lady Saumures was acquitted.
    There was no explanation for the acquittal. The jury was dismissed with thanks. Neither Baron nor Baroness Saumures had any comment.
    Baron and Baroness Saumures live in West Sussex and are well known to a select group for their musical evenings and events. They are also well known for protecting their privacy.
    Alec rummaged on. It was getting close to lunchtime and his head was beginning to ache.”
    Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap



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