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  • #1
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Are you a student of Shakespeare?"
    "He's been dead a long time, so not precisely, but who isn't?" she said.”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #2
    K.  Ritz
    “Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #3
    Sara Pascoe
    “But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
    Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #4
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Aspasia had herself fallen into very good fortune. So good that at the age of twenty years, she’d probably used up the whole life’s portion of good luck that Tyche had allotted her. To make good fortune last—for herself and the child in her womb—would be up to her.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #5
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #6
    Behcet Kaya
    “Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to something. It felt like I was being thrown out of a swing. Then, everything went black.”
    Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate

  • #7
    P.D. Eastman
    “It's a party. A big Dog Party.”
    P.D. Eastman

  • #8
    Erin Morgenstern
    “The boy spends most of his time reading. And writing, of course. He copies out sections of books, writes out words and symbols he does not understand at first but that become intimately familiar beneath his ink-stained fingers, formed again and again in increasingly steady lines.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #9
    Gayle Forman
    “I was here.”
    Gayle Forman, I Was Here

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



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