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  • #1
    Jody    Summers
    “Chuck skipped through the rest of the preamble to the actual examples
    Spaceguard had chronicled:
    “On March 23rd, 1989, an asteroid designated Asteroid 1989FC missed
    hitting the Earth by six hours. This little jewel packed the energy of
    roughly a thousand of the most powerful nuclear bombs, and the human
    race became aware of it shortly after its closest approach. Had this celestial
    baseball been only six hours later most of the population of the Earth
    would have been eliminated with zero warning.”
    “In October of 1990, an asteroid that would have been considered
    very small, struck the Pacific Ocean. This little fellow only packed the
    energy of a small atomic bomb, about the same as the one that flattened
    Hiroshima, and if it had arrived a few hours later or earlier it could have
    easily struck a city rather than making a relatively harmless splash into
    the center of the ocean. Remember, relatively here, is just a comparative
    term.”   ”
    Jody Summers, The Mayan Legacy

  • #2
    Rebecca Harlem
    “Many people think it’s normal to cheat on their partners. But they are unaware that by doing so, they will never be able to reach the depths of love.”
    Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

  • #3
    Mike  Martin
    “I’m so glad you’re okay,” she said, hugging him closely. She knew better than to ask for details. He almost never talked about the difficult parts of his police work. He said that he didn’t want to bring that home with him. ”
    Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort

  • #4
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Stop it!’ The girl jumped out of her chair, ‘Stop torturing me! Stop pretending you didn’t know each other, you planned all this, and then you waited for a wet day and then he was going to come in and then there is this story, and then he’d send the photos off, stop it! Leave me alone!’ She rushed to the door and tore it open and vanished down the hotel stairs.”
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

  • #5
    “He summoned you into the circle, Scott. For whatever reason, I don't know. But now you've left, you've become a loose thread. He won't sit back with the possibility you might cause his whole world to unravel around him.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #6
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
    Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

  • #7
    Andri E. Elia
    “Ma should marry our bio dad, and he can be our friend  but not our dad. You’re our dad, Da. And we’re the Furies; you can’t split us.”
    Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

  • #8
    Sherman Kennon
    “Still I chase the wind
           and float as a gentle breeze
            up among the stars
            then descending
            as a bird down amidst the trees.”
    Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

  • #9
    Alan    Bradley
    “Life was about making sense out of the insensible. A ball of fire out of a clear blue sky? Must’ve been a meteorite, maybe debris from an airplane. Random flashes of light and color at night? A transformer blew up, you must’ve been dreaming, you’re talking crazy, quiet down, take your meds.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #10
    K.  Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #11
    P.D. Eastman
    “There they go.
    Look at those dogs go!
    Why are they going fast in those cars?
    What are they going to do?
    Where are those dogs going?”
    P.D. Eastman, Go, Dog. Go!

  • #12
    Isaac Asimov
    “When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.”
    Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

  • #13
    Anne Rice
    “Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”
    Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

  • #14
    John  Green
    “If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #15
    Emem Uko
    “It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.”
    Emem Uko

  • #16
    “The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.”
    Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction



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