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  • #1
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “One thing, though, was for sure – here I was, alive, healthy but as unquiet in my way as they were in theirs. Transcendent equality. You’ve got to love it.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #2
    Merlin Franco
    “You too, Caesar?”
    Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

  • #3
    “I don’t like anything pointing at me, dollface, that includes an umbrella, a finger, or a gun, got it?”
    A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

  • #4
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “I want to propose a toast!" Taking a spoon he noisily tapped it against the crystal glass.  "Everyone!" He thundered, the large amount of whiskey he had consumed making him reckless.  "To Victor,  Ste. Genevieve's own inventor and my best friend, all the happiness in the world!"  The happy crowd shouted their approval.  "And to the ever, ever fair beauty Celena..." His voice cracking under the strain, and he wondered if he should stop now, before he embarrassed himself, before he made some horrible declaration.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #5
    “From the vaulted arches several stories above us, entire, mature trees were growing, reaching leafy boughs down into the open air between the floor and ceiling. There was a full glade growing up there, oak, birch, maple, and elm, like someone had carved out a few acres of the park and fixed it there upside down.”
    Edward Williams

  • #6
    Robert         Reid
    “In Esimore, Sulux was returning from tending to the herd as it grazed the summer pastures. The lone traveller was dressed in light blue clothing that shimmered white in the evening sun. The old prophesies had finally been fulfilled.”
    Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

  • #7
    “This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?”
    R.D. Ronald

  • #8
    Robyn Mundell
    “Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
    Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

  • #9
    Richard Yates
    “Eleven Kinds of Loneliness and Liars in Love. He died in”
    Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

  • #10
    Kristin Hannah
    “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

  • #11
    Ayn Rand
    “The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #12
    Trevor Alan Foris
    “We as a race are the sole reason this planet is in the mess it is.”
    Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

  • #13
    Walt Whitman
    “They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago. ”
    Walt Whitman

  • #14
    Warren Kornblum
    “Brands don’t exist in decks; they exist in decisions.”
    Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

  • #15
    “Luck be a lady tonight.”
    Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

  • #16
    K.  Ritz
    “Some days I succeed. Today I failed.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #17
    “Ferret took out a folded scrap of paper and passed it to him.
    'My guy Ben doesn't know where the other club is, but the girls are being shipped in from here, a rehab centre in Newtonville.'
    'What's this other place called?' Tazeem asked as he slipped the scrap of paper into his pocket.
    'The place is just known as The Club. But the behind-the-scenes bit that only the real big spenders get to see, there's no official name, 'cause officially it doesn't exist, that's know as The Zombie Room.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #18
    Susan  Rowland
    “   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #19
    J.L. Marrain
    “Real football, you play with your feet, not your hands!”v”
    J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

  • #20
    Rich DiSilvio
    “Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.”
    Rich DiSilvio

  • #21
    Rohinton Mistry
    “After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”
    Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

  • #22
    Christopher Paolini
    “The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.”
    Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

  • #23
    Leon Uris
    “Su profesión le había enseñado a esconder el miedo, a mostrarse impasible ante las tragedias. El lado negro del mundo, sus penalidades y su miseria formaban parte del trabajo cotidiano.”
    Leon Uris, Armageddon

  • #24
    Ralph Ellison
    “You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.”
    Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

  • #25
    Naomi Klein
    “Climate change has never received the crisis treatment from our leaders, despite the fact that it carries the risk of destroying lives on a vastly greater scale than collapsed banks or collapsed buildings.”
    Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

  • #26
    John Stuart Mill
    “It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. [...] To say that one persons desires and feelings are stronger and more various than those of another, is merely to say that he has more of the raw material of human nature, and is therefore capable, perhaps of more evil, but certainly of more good.”
    John Stuart Mill, On Liberty



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