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  • #1
    J. Rose Black
    “If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.”
    J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

  • #2
    “This is step one to receiving God’s heart: Decide that your mission on this earth is to obey God every single day.”
    Kathryn Krick, The Secret of the Anointing: Accessing the Power of God to Walk in Miracles

  • #3
    Robert         Reid
    “12. The common man has to fight to survive each day
    But when his Lord demands his homage to pay
    The common man has to fight another way
    With sword or axe or spear, whatever his Lord doth say
    The common man just hopes to live beyond this frightening day
    And asks for the courage not to turn and run away”
    Robert Reid, The Empress

  • #4
    Lotchie Burton
    “Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #5
    “Before going to breakfast, you are in your
room experiencing the gongs of a classic religious
    bell, a unique and cuddly invitation to the morning meditation session. In ten minutes it will be 7:00 a.m.—dawn’s brisk reminder that life will never be easy. Mornings are a bit cruel.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #6
    Michael G. Kramer
    “People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    Michael G. Kramer

  • #7
    Amos Smith
    “If Jesus is at once God and human, that means that as believers we cannot refer to Jesus as God without qualifying that:"God in human form.”
    Amos Smith

  • #8
    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #9
    “Charley threw Cindy on the bed and pulled a switchblade knife. He pressed the release button and a five-inch blade flipped open. “One word to anybody and your ugly dog gets his throat cut!”
    Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #11
    Annie Proulx
    “Their faces were scarified in hideous whorls and dots. As for clothing, they dressed in vegetable matter. Another”
    Annie Proulx, Barkskins

  • #12
    “It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.”
    Kristin Cashore, Fire

  • #13
    Lisa Genova
    “but her emotions sit on the throne of her intellect. This is how she’s built, and like any castle, her foundational stones aren’t easily rearranged.”
    Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

  • #14
    Ayn Rand
    “She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.”
    Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  • #15
    Jodi Picoult
    “But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes



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