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  • #1
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Awakened to the crow of a rooster almost old enough to retire to a cooking pot.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #2
    Margarita Barresi
    “The bang of the modernist metal doorknocker exploded in the room. Jolting upright on the edge of the couch, Isa froze, her heart beating a discordance of dread. Her mind went blank as she stared
    at the door. No.”
    Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

  • #3
    “If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #4
    “Theodora was able to reflect on the events of the past few hours. Her headache had gone, and she felt a lot better after a brandy, a bath and a clean set of clothes. As she smoked her cigarette, and feeling a little more normal, she played back the horror of what had happened in Sussex. Watching the murder of her close friends, the horrendous way they had died … How was she going to tell Charlotte? Not only about the slaying of Christina and Bernard, but also that Jost Krupp was responsible – not just for the murders of Christine and Bernard, but also, it seemed, for Ferdi. And to crown it all, that he was still alive! Charlotte was convinced she had killed him in Auch in 1943.”
    Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

  • #5
    “Our experiences are all a result of our personal energy signature, which develops from our focus of attention. Once we realize this, we can create a world of light and love in our personal consciousness, which also flows into the consciousness of humanity and the entire cosmos.”
    Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

  • #6
    Sara Pascoe
    “Maybe we can politely ignore each other forever? I think that's the mature thing to do.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #7
    Tom Robbins
    “When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #8
    Dodie Smith
    “Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the beginning of Pride and Prejudice – where Mrs. Bennet says 'Netherfield Park is let a last.' And then Mr. Bennet goes over to call on the rich new owner.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #9
    Jon Scieszka
    “The older you get, the more questions you get asked, and the more weary you become of answering the questions and the more elusive the answers--any answer, every answer--seem. --Maureen O'Toople in the short story "Your Question for Author Here”
    Jon Scieszka Katie DiCamillo, Funny Business
    tags: aging

  • #10
    Tina Traverse
    “We Are brothers, tied by blood, in our veins, what we spill. But it is a deadly secret that will forever bind us.”
    Tina Traverse, Destiny of the Vampire

  • #11
    Harper Lee
    “There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #12
    “Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.”
    Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country

  • #13
    Lotchie Burton
    “He reached for one of her fidgeting hands, grasping hold. Her eyes met his then faltered, lowered and grazed over his damaged skin. Her gaze burning nearly as deep as the wounds.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #14
    “Deliverance is not scary—it is the most beautiful, loving act of Jesus. It is the moment someone finally walks into the freedom that was always meant for them.”
    Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

  • #15
    J. Rose Black
    “I held my breath and closed my eyes, just listening to the wordless song of falling.”
    J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

  • #16
    Susan  Rowland
    “   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #17
    K.  Ritz
    “If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #18
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “The family discussed some of the things they could do to stop the forest from being cut down. They talked about making flyers and delivering them in the neighbourhood.”
    Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

  • #19
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

  • #20
    Carl Sagan
    “We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps.”
    Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

  • #21
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #22
    Kim Edwards
    “Do what you love, and the money will follow.”
    Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

  • #23
    Ken Follett
    “Changing your beliefs with every change of monarch was called “policy,” and people who did it were “politicians.”
    Ken Follett, A Column of Fire

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?”
    Oscar Wilde



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