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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #2
    A.R. Merrydew
    “This generation will witness social and economic changes in our societies, that will be irreversible, thanks to AI.”
    A.R. Merrydew

  • #3
    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “No one else can close the door that God has opened for you,” she quietly said under her breath. That was something that Grandma Alice had said to her many times before her death.

    “I miss you, Alice,” she whispered, “and wish you were here with me now.”
    Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

  • #4
    Ami Loper
    “When we are more aware of our sin than of the blood of Jesus Christ which removes our sin, relationship will remain superficial.”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #5
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Are you a student of Shakespeare?"
    "He's been dead a long time, so not precisely, but who isn't?" she said.”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #6
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #7
    Sharon Creech
    “cold”
    Sharon Creech, Saving Winslow

  • #8
    Michael Shaara
    “different kind of army. If you look at history you’ll see men fight for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, or because a king makes them, or just because they like killing. But we’re here for something”
    Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

  • #9
    Eoin Colfer
    “Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.”
    Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony

  • #10
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #11
    Jostein Gaarder
    “Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.”
    Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

  • #12
    Nevil Shute
    “Mary looked at her gratefully. “Well, that’s what I think. I mean, I couldn’t bear to—to just stop doing things and do nothing. You might as well die now and get it over.” Moira nodded. “If what they say is right, we’re none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.”
    Nevil Shute, On the Beach



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