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  • #1
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Oh, so now I'm getting in trouble for things I didn't tell anyone I didn't know?”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #2
    Sara Pascoe
    “With our beloved prairie voles the female has her ovulation induced by the smell of male urine. It’s a sure sign there’s a male nearby and so her body gets ready for mating. The exact opposite of a human female getting a whiff of urinals in a nightclub and her vagina falling off in disgust”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
    Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

  • #4
    Merlin Franco
    “You too, Caesar?”
    Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

  • #5
    A.R. Merrydew
    “The machines were simple and harmless, developed by a human genius who set in motion something, which ultimately had far reaching consequences.”
    A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Veronica Roth
    “A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #8
    Margery Williams Bianco
    “The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams”
    Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams Bianco [A Heartwarming Tale: The Velveteen Rabbit's Journey]

  • #9
    David McCullough
    “The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite,” observed John Sanderson. “We demolish dinner, they eat it.” The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at all, wrote James Fenimore Cooper. The genius in French cookery was “in blending flavors and in arranging compounds in such a manner as to produce … the lightest and most agreeable food.” The charm of a French dinner, like so much in French life, was the “effect.”
    David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

  • #10
    Tim Butcher
    “In the 1960s it was in Maniema that thirteen Italian airmen of the United Nations were killed and eaten, their body parts smoked and made available at local markets for weeks after the slaughter.”
    Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

  • #11
    Charles Darwin
    “We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species this relation is often broken:”
    Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World: The Voyage of the Beagle

  • #12
    Trevor Alan Foris
    “Suddenly blinded by dazzling light filling the room, they hear a series of clicks echoing around them. As the purple gloom returns and with it their sight, little red dots dance across their chests.”
    Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

  • #13
    “You won’t be able to start your training either, and you won’t be able to meet your true teacher and return home, Theo, until you defeat your own inner dragon.”
    Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

  • #14
    Max Nowaz
    “Stand in the machine there, let’s see what state your internal organs are in. The images
will be projected on screen, and I can go through the diagnosis with you, step by step.”
Brown did as he was told and soon images of his vital organs appeared on the screen.
 As you can see, your heart is slightly enlarged and your lungs and kidneys are not in
good shape either. Have you been experiencing any pain lately?”
“Not that I can think of. What can you do to help?”
“Difficult to say, you see you are dying” said the Doctor. You can see the
discolouration in your kidneys.” Brown strained his eyes.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #15
    Sara Pascoe
    “Enough, gentlemen, enough! Show a New World marsupial a little respect”
    Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

  • #16
    “I had come to Europe looking to learn about love and life—and men.”
    Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

  • #17
    Chad Boudreaux
    “What other problems do American soldiers face when hunting down these fanat­ical killers?”
    “A person’s senses are more acute when being hunted,” Reid said. “More adept at avoiding capture.”
    These guys are good, Blake thought as a bead of sweat trickled down the small of his back. What have I gotten myself into?”
    Chad Boudreaux, Scavenger Hunt

  • #18
    Anne  Michaud
    “The people at the center of these stories of power couples mostly choose to see their own motives as selfless. In Elizabeth Edwards’ autobiography Resilience, she wrote of her marriage to John, U.S. senator from North Carolina, ‘We were lovers, life companions, crusaders, side by side, for a vision of what the country could be.’ When she found out he was cheating on her, the crusading together became ‘the glue’ that kept them together. ‘I grabbed hold of it. I needed to,’ Edwards wrote. ‘Although I no longer knew what I could trust between the two of us, I knew I could trust in our work together.’ She wanted ‘an intact family fighting for causes more important than any one of us.”
    Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

  • #19
    Warren Kornblum
    “You don’t need to exaggerate, hype, or over-optimize your message. You just need to mean it.”
    Warren Kornblum, Notes from the Brand Stand: Thoughts on Emotional Branding from Someone Who Has Fought for Consumer Attention and Won

  • #20
    Brian J. Twiddy
    “I’m still the man here. You’re my wife,’ I walked forward, she had to back away, she looked scared. Good, it serves her right for once”
    Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

  • #21
    James W. Loewen
    “Ironically, societies characterized by a complex division of labor are often marked by inequality and support large specialized armies. Precisely these “civilized” societies are likely to resort to savage violence in their attempts to conquer “primitive” societies.22”
    James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

  • #22
    Jojo Moyes
    “Sometimes I look at the lives of the people around me and I wonder if we aren’t all destined to leave a trail of damage.”
    Jojo Moyes, After You

  • #23
    “Little Engine That Could - "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.”
    Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could

  • #24
    Allen Ginsberg
    “No rest
    without love,
    No sleep
    without dreams
    of love -
    be mad or chill
    obsessed with angels
    or machines
    the final wish
    is love.”
    Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems



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