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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Get up you lazy bastard. The Governor wants a word with you,” said a guard. 
He opened his eyes and smiled. There was another guard standing near the cell door in 
anticipation of any trouble. The prisoner smiled at him, too. 
Now what can the Governor want from me? He wondered. His dishevelled form seemed 
incapable of coherent thought. “It’s nice of him to remember me,” he said aloud, trying to 
concentrate.
“Surprising he’s got any time for a worthless shit like you,” said the first guard. 
“I once used to be a very important person,” the prisoner said feebly.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #2
    Jay Asher
    “But they were wrong. There was a reason.”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #3
    Jon Scieszka
    “My face felt like it had just been rammed into a brick wall . . . because it had.”
    Jon Scieszka, Other Worlds

  • #4
    Markus Zusak
    “It's not the place, I think. It's the people. We'd have all been the same anywhere else.”
    Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

  • #5
    Norton Juster
    “It has been a long trip,” said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; “but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn’t made so many mistakes. I’m afraid it’s all my fault.” “You must never feel badly about making mistakes,” explained Reason quietly, “as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.” “But there’s so much to learn,” he said, with a thoughtful frown. “Yes, that’s true,” admitted Rhyme; “but it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.” “That’s just what I mean,” explained Milo as Tock and the exhausted bug drifted quietly off to sleep. “Many of the things I’m supposed to know seem so useless that I can’t see the purpose in learning them at all.” “You may not see it now,” said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo’s puzzled face, “but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in a pond; and whenever you’re sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it’s much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.” “And remember, also,” added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, “that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you’ll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”
    Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

  • #6
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #7
    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #8
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “The created a displacement devise that separated solids into fragmented molecules.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #9
    Edward        Williams
    “was he connected to the hitman? I didn't worry about it”
    Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

  • #10
    Raz Mihal
    “Souls carry the love over aeons and never forget the beloved soul.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #11
    Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
    “Fairness is a leadership superpower. ”
    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

  • #12
    Todor Bombov
    “In the conditions of this “New World Order,” a crucial part of the contemporary world economy is a criminal economy, in which the excess profits are accumulated not by the production of material comforts, but by drug-traffic, arms trafficking, and human trafficking, including prostitution. The contemporary world economy is an economy of the global organized criminality whose eminently form is the modern capitalist state. The contemporary world economy is an economy not of the real commodity production, but an economy of the jobbery; this is expressed directly in supply and demand of the capital of the speculation, i.e., in the fictitious capital trade, in the antagonistic games with share capital in the stock exchange. Just Wall Street’s stock exchange, i.e., the world speculative capital market, is the contemporary tremendous pump for inflation of the balloons of the world economic crises, the last one of which began in 2007. The aggregate amount of the bonds on the world market, as many economists know, is over one hundred trillion US dollars! Without taking in mind the derivatives! If including those, the aggregate amount is several times more! This is an enormous balloon as inflated as a red giant star! And when added to this amount the world market of the shares, the passing each other between real and fictitious capital grows to cosmic dimensions! This cosmic balloon will burst very soon! That means the most destructive capitalist crisis in human history lies just round the corner, the global economic apocalypse is just forthcoming! This ruin will be due to the stock exchange antagonistic games, the stock exchange that is, as a matter of fact, a gambling house! Because the securities and shares’ trading is sheer gambling! This becomes clear by the direct proportionality between risk and profitability, the more risk—the more profitability, and vice versa! However, this is gambling in which the stakes are not simply money, but millions and billions of human fates. So, this is a destroying-the-civilization-world crime economy!”
    Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

  • #13
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
    Viktor E. Frankl

  • #14
    Louisa May Alcott
    “The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #15
    Paul Cude
    “Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
    Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

  • #16
    James Clavell
    “Piss on you, storm!” Blackthorne raged. “Get your dung-eating hands off my ship!”
    James Clavell, Shōgun, Part 1

  • #17
    Sarah J. Maas
    “Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty.”
    Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

  • #18
    P.D. Eastman
    “You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!”
    P.D. Eastman & Roy McKee, Are You My Mother?

  • #19
    Ellen J. Lewinberg
    “The family discussed some of the things they could do to stop the forest from being cut down. They talked about making flyers and delivering them in the neighbourhood.”
    Ellen J. Lewinberg, Joey and His Friend Water

  • #20
    “Succeeding in life is about having that onetime urgency to go for it.”
    Vernon Davis

  • #21
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Her lips silently formed three words, oh my love.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #22
    Michael G. Kramer
    “After March in 1945, the Japanese felt threatened by possibility of the people of Indochina rising against them. Therefore, they stated:
    “We of the Imperial Japanese Army have only invaded other Asian countries in order to remove the European and American white man from Asia! Stick with us Japanese and together we shall make Asians great while we kick the whites out of the entire region!”

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

  • #23
    C. Toni Graham
    “Smile if you want to. Grimace if you’re told to.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #24
    “The first impressions with the ashram people
are these sparkling interior experiences. The eyeballs can be peepholes into the Milky Way and beyond. You may mumble under your breath that the ashram people could be on something.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #25
    “Rather than get hung up on theological debates, why don’t we focus on the depraved state of the people who need freedom? While debates rage, the devil is laughing as people stay in bondage.”
    Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

  • #26
    Margarita Barresi
    “After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.”
    Margarita Barresi, A Delicate Marriage

  • #27
    “The Jews hated us, and the Arabs despised their once allies. We'd walked away and left the country at war.”
    Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

  • #28
    Betty  Smith
    “There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly...survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful...”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #29
    Thomas Paine
    “With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a man's walking, could have made such books; for the story is most wretchedly told.”
    Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

  • #30
    Munro Leaf
    “A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.”
    Munro Leaf, Who Cares? I Do.



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