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  • #1
    Steven Decker
    “Rufus didn’t pay any attention to the voice back then. At that time, he attributed the voice to his lack of confidence, causing him to doubt the durability of his friendship with Melissa. But as the years passed, the voice became louder in his head, and it seemed to be someone else’s. It didn’t sound like Rufus did when he spoke. And it didn’t think like he thought. The most crucial difference between Rufus and the voice was that it didn’t tell the truth because the truth was that only good things had happened to him since he’d met Melissa.”
    Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

  • #2
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Was there something … something evil …getting at Hugo? This bizarre and unwelcome thought surfaced in his mind. Were demons and evil spirits only to be found in the bible stories, or maybe this was some sort of challenge to him to deal with without help from anyone, least of all from the One who he constantly questioned and tried to understand …”
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

  • #3
    Alan    Bradley
    “The holiday village had sprung up in Bryant Park, and the ice rink and booths were bustling with early Christmas shoppers. It smelled like fried food and scented candles, mixed with the occasional blast of diesel from the traffic inching along 42nd Street. When I think of how New York City smells, this is it.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #4
    “I’ll tell the Chief and he’ll squash you like the little flea-ridden castrated cock you are.”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #5
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Adrian von Trotha was thinking, “Soldiers must obey their officers and I shall enforce that! As well, the enemy will not obtain any leniency from me!”
    Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

  • #6
    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
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    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #7
    Andri E. Elia
    “I need a minute.”
    Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

  • #8
    James Joyce
    “Shut your eyes and see.”
    James Joyce

  • #9
    Catherine Marshall
    “Christy could scarcely take her eyes off Fairlight Spencer. She was beautiful, in a plain, simple way. She had on a worn calico dress, and her feet were bare, despite the cold.”
    Catherine Marshall, The Bridge to Cutter Gap

  • #10
    “I realize we lose our innocence in many ways, the most painful being when we realize those who are supposed to love us and care for us more than anything, really care for themselves and their own pleasures more. It's painful because it makes you realize how alone you really are.”
    V.C. Andrews, Darkest Hour

  • #11
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #12
    Sara Gruen
    “To be sure, I'm not perfect wife material: I'm neurotic. I'm compulsive. I speak before I think and can't cook worth a damn. I'm messy and germaphobic all at once, and it's not entirely unheard of for me to get hold of the wrong end of the stick and then hang there like a pitbull.”
    Sara Gruen, Flying Changes

  • #13
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short," she said calmly. "You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting



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