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  • #1
    Sara Pascoe
    “It's only in my head, the madness. And there's no way of knowing if all this is going on in everyone else's head too without exposing myself, and I'd rather be insane and on the loose than locked up in a hospital.”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #4
    Paul A. Barra
    “Past regrets may not be correctable, but sometimes for a writer the pain of his or her failure can be softened by the work of his hand.”
    Paul A. Barra

  • #5
    “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

  • #6
    Therisa Peimer
    “Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died."
    "Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake.
    "My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat."
    "It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss." 
    "What did you do to help her get through it?" 
    Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy."
    Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #7
    A.R. Merrydew
    “     Illicit flight Alfa Bravo Charlie quickly reached a predetermined altitude and stopped dead. The passengers on board screamed the way people do on fairground rides. The shuttle hesitated momentarily and then shot forward accelerating rapidly to reach a blistering 145,222 miles per hour. They were in a Mach 22 situation. The cries from on-board could not be heard from the ground. Neither did anyone in the great metropolis of Llar witness the bright blue vapour trail the craft left behind in its wake. It was after all overcast and raining heavily.”
    A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

  • #8
    Ami Loper
    “A God-given longing must have a God-given fulfillment”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #9
    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #10
    David Sedaris
    “The drama bug strikes hardest with Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs. These are people who, for one reason or another, desperately crave attention”
    David Sedaris

  • #11
    Fredrik Backman
    “This book is dedicated to the voices inside my head, the most remarkable of my friends.
    And to my wife, who lives with us.”
    Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

  • #12
    Nelson Mandela
    “A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #13
    “Every day that passed, the young woman thought more and understood less”
    Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

  • #14
    Erin Morgenstern
    “Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus



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