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  • #1
    Michael G. Kramer
    “            It was stated by an Australian Army Officer, “Phuoc Tuy offers the perfect terrain for guerrilla warfare. It has a long coastline with complex areas of mangrove swamps, isolated ranges of very rugged mountains and a large area of uninhabited jungle containing all of the most loathsome combinations of thorny bamboos, poisonous snakes, insects, malaria, dense underbrush, swamps and rugged ground conditions that the most dedicated guerrilla warfare expert could ask for.”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

  • #2
    S.W. Clemens
    “Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
    S.W. Clemens

  • #3
    Tom  Baldwin
    “No one else could share his quandary. His agonies were a mixture of shame, of loss fueled by profoundly rooted fury—solitary burdens he had carried with him like pockets of sorrow weighing him down, forcing him to become stronger. When the Devil was gnawing at him, he’d withstood the pain.”
    Tom Baldwin, Macom Farm

  • #4
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes
    “When we see our world is about to unwind,God sees an image of His perfect design.”
    Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

  • #5
    S.G. Blaise
    “Don’t rush, my dear. It is not fitting for a ma’hana, and only makes you look guilty.”
    S.G. Blaise, The Last Lumenian

  • #6
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “It was as if we played chess after denying me both bishops and knights.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #7
    Michael Tobert
    “Secrets,’ she replied, casting my trousers aside, ‘are difficult things. Not precise. Not always the same for the one who tells as for the one who receives. They make demands. They may cause you to ask yourself, “Am I worthy?”’ At which, as if to illustrate the point, she removed her bra and watched me follow the lines of her magnificent form with my eyes.”
    Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

  • #8
    Charles Dowding
    “The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”
    Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

  • #9
    “Water is to India as blood is to the body, with the many rivers functioning as arteries – the Ganges being the aorta – and the monsoon timelessly arriving as a much-needed annual blood transfusion.”
    Colin Phelan, The Local School

  • #10
    Max Nowaz
    “Do you still distrust me?”
    “No. Take your necklace with you so you can think of me when I’m not there.”
Brown brought the necklace over to her and put it on her neck.
“I think it rather suits me,” she laughed and left.
Brown didn’t understand what had made him insist she wear the necklace. Maybe it
was the readiness with which she had made love, or her frequent disappearances lately,
he was just curious. There was no harm in checking, before he parted with the money.
Later that evening, before going to sleep he decided to have a look at her location and
he was in for a surprise. She had not left Central City at all. In fact she was at the same
friend’s address as she had been the last time.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #11
    David Wroblewski
    “That mirror, that's one I hate to let go, he said. That was my daughter's the whole time she was growing up. It probably seen her more than me--everything from a baby up to twenty years old. Sometimes I wonder if all that might still be inside it. Got to make an impression on a thing, reflecting the same person every day.”
    David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

  • #12
    Ellen Raskin
    “Angela Wexler, person
    Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game

  • #13
    Art Spiegelman
    “No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.”
    Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

  • #14
    Kathryn Stockett
    “I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my shoes back on, threatening ringworm, mosquito, encephalitis. The inevitability of death by no shoes. Death by no husband.”
    Kathryn Stockett, The Help

  • #15
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. "Have you thought of a story?" I was asked every morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus

  • #16
    Jane Smiley
    “And she had gone off from her husband to live by herself with the priests, had she not? Does a man, seeing a trinket lying before him in the grass, fail to pick it up?”
    Jane Smiley, The Greenlanders

  • #17
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #18
    Sara Pascoe
    “It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #19
    Therisa Peimer
    “Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too?”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #20
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised, “The Athenians will look like gods.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #21
    Max Nowaz
    “Being magnanimous in victory usually worked, but to keep abreast of the situation he had to 
pump the girl for all she knew. Was there a pang of remorse for his actions in his mind? 
Possibly, but what choice did he have? If he wanted to survive, he had no room for weakness.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #22
    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “She could see the headlines now.

    ‘Spinster dies alone in her condo. No one discovered her corpse for three days.’

    She had been so preoccupied with work, that she’d neglected to do the grocery shopping and was now regretting it.”
    Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

  • #23
    Ami Loper
    “When I hear that still, small Voice wooing me and asking me to drop everything and spend time with Him, I need to be willing to yield.”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #24
    “Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own?”
    Flora Rheta Schrieber

  • #25
    Jay Asher
    “But I need to wake up somehow. Or maybe not. Maybe it’s best to get through the day half-asleep. Maybe that’s the only way to get through today.”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #26
    Janet Fitch
    “what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the true world. beauty said there was something more than just one fucking thing after another. time could rest for a moment, stop and that senseless motion. people thot beauty was bullshit, just a bandaide slapped over the abyss, but they couldnt be more wrong. beauty mattered, it was the only thing that fed you when everything turned to shit. ”
    Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

  • #27
    “الحياة رائعة إلى حدّ أن الموت واقع في غرامها.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi



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