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  • #1
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #5
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #6
    “Mary was under water. She’d been under water for a long time. Rhiannon was there. No, it was just her severed head talking. The murdered girl’s hair billowed out from under the torc.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #7
    “Anna did say the wife of Lir had left her?” whispered Mary.
    “Yes,” said Caroline. “She said, ‘for now.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #8
    “Sure didn’t expect to see that kind of assault, here in Oxford,” said another. “Seems like such a quiet town.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #9
    “Take it away,” she pointed at the green milk in a normal tone. “Anna and wife of Lir. Both must stay.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #10
    “Wife of Lir eat horse.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #11
    “No sleeping in the places of death.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #12
    “There was no city, no London, just beacon fires on all three sacred mounds.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #13
    “The Torc— and the crone— go to the underworld via the sacred well and the river.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #14
    “[B]ehind the mother fighting for her son’s life was the priestess of the forest and the cup.”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #15
    Albert Waitt
    “If you didn't pay attention to the buoys and markers, you'd hit something.  Not enough people paid attention.  Our marinas were swamped with repairs.”
    Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

  • #16
    Albert Waitt
    “You think you're as tough as you used to be?"
    "Probably not, Blink," I said.  "But in theory, I'm a hell of a lot smarter.”
    Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

  • #17
    Albert Waitt
    “Laurel had one thousand year-round residents and our share of bar fights, car accidents, marital disputes, and an occasional breaking and entering.  What we didn't have were missing teenage girls.”
    Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

  • #18
    Albert Waitt
    “Murder, gambling, and beating up women doesn't illicit my sympathy, no matter what kind of language you dress it in.”
    Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

  • #19
    Albert Waitt
    “I didn't know whether it was the events of the night or the coffee that had made me jittery.  I reached into the cabinet over the sink and pulled down the bottle of Jack Daniels.”
    Albert Waitt, The Ruins of Woodman's Village

  • #20
    “Don’t we know any. . .er. . .cheap lawyers?”
    Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

  • #21
    Susan  Rowland
    “If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #22
    Susan  Rowland
    “The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    Susan  Rowland
    “Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #25
    Susan  Rowland
    “There was no going back now. Rubber and metal could only take so much. The car could shatter and send its passengers into an elemental distillation of rock, flesh, blood, and ash. Alchemy, thought Mary, grimly. Too much bloody alchemy.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #26
    Susan  Rowland
    “The fire on the mountain.” That was Anna. “Alchemy,” she said. “I feel it singing in my bones.”
    “Singing?” Mary would never understand Anna. The young woman turned away.
    Wiseman’s reply was tinged with respect.
    “That great pair of alchemists, Francis Ransome and Roberta Le More, believed the work they did affected the world’s spirit, the anima mundi. The Native Americans they met believed they too could and should interact with the Great Spirit. They lived with reverence for the land and all its peoples, the ancestors, the animals, the rocks, the trees, mountains.” 
    Mary’s jaw dropped; Caroline glowed; Anna pretended not to listen. Wiseman nodded, then continued.
    “You mean…?” began Mary.
    “Yes, it could have been so different, a meeting of like-minded earth-based spiritualities. Just imagine, what could have been?”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #27
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #28
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer

  • #29
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #30
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated



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