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  • #1
    “I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”
    March Lions, The Last Sunset

  • #2
    Cricket Rohman
    “There is more to Subject C than meets the eye. I am baffled by the coldness and selfishness of this woman. I am also tired of dog sitting. Hiding in shadows, waiting in the wings to talk with her is not my style. I hope I'm not in over my head.”
    Cricket Rohman, Wanted: An Honest Man

  • #3
    Susan  Rowland
    “We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #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
    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #6
    John Grisham
    “How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.”
    John Grisham, A Painted House

  • #7
    Francine  Rivers
    “If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.”
    Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

  • #8
    Bernhard Schlink
    “I was sitting in the same place I always sat. But she looked straight ahead and through everything. A proud, wounded, lost, and infinitely tired look. A look that wished to see nothing and no one.”
    Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

  • #9
    Dalton Trumbo
    “Then I'll wake up and I’ll be with you and I’ll never leave or be afraid or dream again. Oh no. I can’t. I can’t stand it. Scream. Move. Shake something. Make a noise any noise. I can’t stand it. Oh no no no. Please I can’t. Please no. Somebody come. Help me. I can’t lie here forever like this until maybe years from now I die. I can’t. Nobody can. It isn’t possible. I can’t breathe but I’m breathing. I’m so scared I can’t think but I’m thinking. Oh please please no. No no. It isn’t me. Help me. It can’t be me. Not me. No no no. Oh please oh oh please. No no no please no. Please. Not me.”
    Dalton Trumbo

  • #10
    Rudyard Kipling
    “This, O my Best Beloved is a story – a new and wonderful story – a story quite different from the other stories”
    Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

  • #11
    Dean Koontz
    “...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.”
    Dean Koontz, The Taking
    tags: humor, poe



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