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  • #1
    “She gasped. In his eyes, in just a heartbeat or two, she saw herself for what she was: a creature of this broken world, herself bearing the burden of the breaking.”
    Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel

  • #2
    Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
    “Employees are savvy. They know the difference between disguising and remedying unfairness at work”
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

  • #3
    A.R. Merrydew
    “My name is Jenny,’ the prototype curtly informed Theodore, with a stance that advertised her statement to perfection.”
    A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

  • #4
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “What the hell, if you are going to roll the dice with Lucifer, I say go the distance.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #5
    Sara Pascoe
    “Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #6
    “You want to drive it.”
    “Me? I’m only twelve.”
    “I didn’t ask you how old you are. Do you want to drive the tractor?”
    R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

  • #7
    Clement Clarke Moore
    “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.”
    Clement C. Moore, Twas the Night before Christmas A Visit from St. Nicholas

  • #8
    Jon Krakauer
    “Happiness [is] only real when shared”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #9
    Ian McEwan
    “His tears were for joy, for a sudden warmth of understanding that did not yet have these terms of definition: how loving and good people were, how kind the world was that had ambulances in it that came quickly out of nowhere whenever there was sorrow and pain. Always there, an entire system, just below the surface of everyday life, watchfully waiting, ready with all its knowledge and skill to come and help, embedded within a greater network of kindness he had yet to discover.”
    Ian McEwan, Lessons

  • #10
    Gregory Maguire
    “Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”
    Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

  • #11
    Tom Sechrist
    “The pen is mightier than the sword... an considerably easier to write with. - Marty Feldman”
    Tom Sechrist

  • #12
    O. Henry
    “In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains.”
    O. Henry, Cabbages and Kings



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