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  • #1
    Susan  Rowland
    “Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #2
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “Stepfather?" "It means he fucks your mum and isn't really your dad.”
    Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

  • #3
    K.  Ritz
    “If one does not react to gossip, the informer hushes more quickly.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #4
    Mike  Martin
    “Are you sure this will work?” asked Princess Sophie as she was pulling the cart away from Lady Ariana’s cottage.
    “If you believe, it will work,” said Lady Ariana.”
    Mike Martin, Princess Sophie and the Christmas Elixir

  • #5
    Alan    Bradley
    “What seemed at first like an act of incandescent self-destruction turned out to be the onramp to a bleak treadmill, one that felt designed to eradicate my personality and identity. It didn’t end my self-recrimination and misery. Instead, it illustrated just how good I’d had it living on the street.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #6
    Max Nowaz
    “Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,” chirped Wendy.
    “No, he hasn’t.” Adam denied it. “He’s in the house. Now, look, what’s all this you’ve been telling them?”
    “Nothing, I haven’t told them anything.” Charlie looked drunk.
    “He said you’ve turned your friend into a crayfish,” insisted Wendy.
    “He’s always making little jokes like that, and you fell for it. How am I supposed to do that, for heaven’s sake?” Adam was angry.
    “With your little book you found. What’s that under your arm?”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #7
    Raz Mihal
    “Sometimes, I struggle to keep my tears of love flowing outside. But inside, rivers of divine love and tears pour all the time.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #8
    Sherman Kennon
    “A silent breeze swept away a moment, one that never can be recaptured, never can it be relived. So it is for us to cherish the  moments, cherish them with all of our might. For just as an eagle in flight, they are transient, soon vanishing like the moon as day return the light.”
    Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

  • #9
    Andri E. Elia
    “He totally lost it. Here comes the apoplexy.”
    Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

  • #10
    Louis Sachar
    “Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. He'd just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather! He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.”
    Louis Sachar, Holes

  • #11
    Dave Pelzer
    “Before I could reply, I saw his shadow disappear down the hall. I bent down in front of the vent and turned my head, coughing from the dark smoke. A small, red orange fire began to take form. In a flash I grabbed the can of lighter fluid that John had left and pulled it out from the vent.”
    Dave Pelzer, The Lost Boy

  • #12
    Kate Chopin
    “One of these days," she said, "I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think—try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

  • #13
    Mark Helprin
    “He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.”
    Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

  • #14
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons



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