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    John Bennardo
    “I got the job as a Bingo host and did better than they imagined. Never before had they had an emcee so affable and funny, so enthusiastic to give away prizes, or so quick to make a tumor joke after calling out 'B-9'".”
    John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

  • #2
    Charles Dowding
    “Gardening is easier than it is often made out to be.”
    Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

  • #3
    Harvey Havel
    “Once inside my skull, my doctor added some salt, just to taste.  He also poured some fruit into my skull – an apple, a pear, a few seedless grapes, and a ripe banana.  He then used an electric blender set on its highest speed to create what he had termed ‘a yogurt parfait.’  After he finished blending the ingredients, he beckoned the other doctors and a few of the nurses to sample his new concoction.”
    Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

  • #4
    S.G. Blaise
    “Ivy shrugs. “Poisoning is the Marauders’ way. No offense, but feel free to take some.”
    S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

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    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

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    Tom  Baldwin
    “Catching the wrong Fish is unrewarding.”
    Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

  • #7
    “As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
    Colin Phelan, The Local School

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    Kirsten Fullmer
    “She gripped the wheel and squared her shoulders. She didn’t have to do any of this alone. All she had to do was notify the society and put out an All Points Bulletin on Adam and she’d know everything there was to know about the man within 24 hours.”
    Kirsten Fullmer

  • #9
    Michael Tobert
    “Ranjana finds Stephen lying on an old string bed staring up at the ceiling and seeing in its myriad cracks the soothing drift of clouds. She puts what she’s brought to his lips, brushes them with her fingertips, and watches as he works the sweet onto his teeth. She feels a light touch on her arm encouraging her to lie next to him. She rests on her back, the pair of them laid out like two corpses waiting for the first shower of moist earth. After a while, she rolls over, nuzzles into his shoulder, and lets her hand fall limp and sweet across his chest. She drifts off to sleep, sweating in the arms of her lover.”
    Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

  • #10
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes
    “God knows what we do not see, so let Him lead and set you free.”
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

  • #11
    Karl Braungart
    “The men who are instructing you are US Army intelligence officers. Their names match information from Tariq’Allah. We believe they are traitors to Iraq and want photographs to make sure. Use your smartphones and send those as soon as possible.”
    Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

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    Margaret Atwood
    “How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #13
    Scott Westerfeld
    “Maybe human beings are programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad...”
    Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

  • #14
    Fred Gipson
    “... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.”
    Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

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    Jojo Moyes
    “Our eyes locked. And in that moment everything shifted. I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody’s center, his reason for staying. I saw that I could be enough.”
    Jojo Moyes, After You

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    Milan Kundera
    “it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #17
    Nancy Omeara
    “An Affair With The Media
    Being President presupposes a relationship with the media. One does have control over the intimacy of that connection.
    My media association might be best represented by the following interview, recently undertaken for this book:
    “What do you think of Newstime’s review of your book, Madam President?”
    “Newstime’s review? Surely you mean Bill Bologna who works for Newstime?”
    “Well, yes.”
    “Now, Bill Bologna. What has he published?”
    “He’s a critic. He does reviews.”
    “Oh, he gets paid for reading what other people have published and then writing what he thinks of their writing?”
    Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]

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    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
    “I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
    “But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
    Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

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    Jacob Grimm
    “A merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he should bring back for her. The eldest wished for pearls; the second for jewels; but the third, who was called Lily, said, 'Dear father, bring me a rose.' Now it was no easy task to find a rose, for it was the middle of winter; yet as she was his prettiest daughter, and was very fond of flowers, her father said he would try what he could do. So he kissed all three, and bid them goodbye.”
    Jacob Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

  • #21
    Cornelia Funke
    “He looked so glorious. Just like the knights I had dreamed about when I was six years old, whacking at brambles iin our garden, imagining I was fighting dragons and giants with a sword that made me invincible and wearing armor that protected me from all the things that frightened me - older kids, dogs, a storm in the knight, or my little sister's questions about when our father would be coming back.”
    Cornelia Funke, Ghost Knight

  • #22
    Diane Setterfield
    “And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. For it must be very lonely being dead.”
    Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

  • #23
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me; now I felt empty. But that wasn't the worst: before me, posed with a sort of indolence, was a voluminous, insipid idea. I did not see clearly what it was, but it sickened me so much I couldn't look at it.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

  • #24
    Esther Forbes
    “How old are you Johnny" she asked.
    Sixteen."
    And what's that-a boy or a man?"
    He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.”
    Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

  • #25
    Ally Condie
    “There are many of them in the world, I think, good men and women with their frail deeds. Wondering what might have been, how things might have danced, if we had only dared to be bright.”
    Ally Condie, Reached

  • #26
    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #27
    A.R. Merrydew
    “I had a close encounter with an alien last week. He returned to visit us and was amazed we were still here.”
    A.R. Merrydew

  • #28
    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    R.D. Ronald

  • #29
    Paul A. Barra
    “Your contact’s codename is Stolichnaya.”
    Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

  • #30
    “It started to feel like this thing happening to me was an invisible wall between us, a barrier none of us wanted to acknowledge but that was continuously pushing us apart. I started to feel like an outsider even among my closest friends.”
    Edward Williams



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