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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Lotchie Burton
    “I suppose knowing where you are is better than having you skulk around, popping out of dark alleys and doorways. It eliminates the possibility of shooting you by accident. If I know where you are, I can shoot you on purpose.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #3
    “Far off, I heard a rumble. A land slip perhaps. Or maybe tank fire from thirty miles away. I figured the sounds of war would carry this far into the desert mountains.”
    Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

  • #4
    Margarita Barresi
    “What happens to our island affects all of us, including my boys.” Isa looked Marco in the eyes, like a boa constrictor eyeing its prey. “That gives me every right to an opinion.”
    Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

  • #5
    “That noise you are hearing, drowning out
the blows of life, is the wind touching the fronds of the thirty or so eighty-foot-tall palm trees encircling the centrally located swimming pool. You have fun thinking this sound might be the Holy Spirit.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #6
    C. Toni Graham
    “Smile if you want to. Grimace if you’re told to.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #7
    “You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #8
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #9
    Alyssa Hall
    “I can’t get forensics over here to dig up the yard because my friend here, and her dog, didn’t hear a single thing. I don’t think they’ll go for it, Valerie.”
    Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

  • #10
    Mario Puzo
    “Softly, reassuringly, he comforted his friend, as they waited for death together. As if the Don could truly snatch the life of Genco Abbandando back from that most foul and criminal traitor to man.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #11
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #12
    Mary Norton
    “Misfortunes make us wise”
    Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield

  • #13
    Jean Craighead George
    “Wolves are brotherly," he said. "They love each other, and if you learn to speak to them, they will love you too.”
    Jean Craighead George, Julie of the Wolves

  • #14
    Anne Brontë
    “it is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe;—and if you were to rear an oak sapling in a hothouse, tending it carefully night and day, and shielding it from every breath of wind, you could not expect it to become a hardy tree, like that which has grown up on the mountain-side, exposed to all the action of the elements, and not even sheltered from the shock of the tempest.”
    Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall



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