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  • #1
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #2
    Harper Lee
    “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #3
    Harper Lee
    “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #4
    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #5
    Harper Lee
    “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #6
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #7
    Barry Kirwan
    “I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”
    Barry Kirwan, When the children come

  • #8
    Barry Kirwan
    “Perception s the only reality that matters”
    Barry Kirwan, Eden's Endgame

  • #9
    Barry Kirwan
    “Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne”
    Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

  • #10
    Barry Kirwan
    “Perhaps Mozart’s Requiem would be fitting music for the end of the world. She began to hum Dies Irae, recalling its first performance in Vienna.”
    Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

  • #11
    Barry Kirwan
    “next”
    Barry Kirwan, Eden's Trial

  • #12
    Barry Kirwan
    “Happiness is knowing that someone, somewhere, really gives a shit.”
    Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

  • #13
    Barry Kirwan
    “Sandy knew her plan was shit. But sometimes better ideas grew out of bad ones. Shit makes good fertilizer, her Gramps used to say, and a wrong track can lead to a new perspective, and a better path.”
    Barry Kirwan, Eden's Endgame

  • #14
    Greer Hendricks
    “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.’ Well, I’ve never feared bad weather, either.”
    Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

  • #15
    Greer Hendricks
    “We all have reasons for our judgments, even if those reasons are so deeply buried we don’t recognize them ourselves.”
    Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

  • #16
    Greer Hendricks
    “I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me the gift of an illusion. We all layer them over our remembrances; the filters through which we want to see our lives.”
    Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

  • #17
    Greer Hendricks
    “Every lifetime contains pivot points—sometimes flukes of destiny, sometimes seemingly preordained—that shape and eventually cement one’s path.”
    Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

  • #18
    Greer Hendricks
    “People are motivated to break their moral compasses for a variety of primal reasons: survival, hate, love, envy, passion. And money.”
    Greer Hendricks, An Anonymous Girl

  • #19
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Heidi's role as grand master was to monitor all the women and to manage their locations and communication. Even though she’d done this many times on multiple missions, her heartbeat still pounded in her ears.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

  • #20
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Adam offered her a heart-melting smile and a wink, then headed for the door. With his hand on the door, he paused and turned back.
    Heidi’s eyes jumped up from his butt to his face.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

  • #21
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “From the antique Persian rugs covering the gleaming hardwood floors to the molded tin ceilings and ornate chandeliers, the house was a showstopper. Throughout its long life, no one had allowed this home to fall into disrepair. Every detail of the wainscoting, every pocket door, every window, floor tile, and bathtub was original to the house.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

  • #22
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “If Adam were honest with himself, which he rarely was, he’d come to terms with the fact that beyond his work and the view, he was floundering a bit. His plan had been to take the insurance money, leave his old life behind, and start completely over somewhere new. A place where memories didn’t lurk around every corner.
    He hadn’t figured on the memories coming along with him.”
    Kirsten Fullmer

  • #23
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Monique bit at the side of lip. “He’s pretty active, I don’t want to impose…”
    Tony stood and scooped up the puppy. “No, seriously, I’d love a little company.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

  • #24
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “The mayor stood, his surprise at her interruption apparent by his twitching mustache. “You—you can’t just burst in here. Who are you?”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Trouble on Main Street

  • #25
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “Mildred adjusted the papers and scribbled some more. When she was finished, she took off her glasses, leaving them to swing from the chain around her neck. She gave the women around the table a pointed look. “Now think hard, ladies, can you come up with anything else?”
    Kirsten Fullmer

  • #26
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “She gripped the wheel and squared her shoulders. She didn’t have to do any of this alone. All she had to do was notify the society and put out an All Points Bulletin on Adam and she’d know everything there was to know about the man within 24 hours.”
    Kirsten Fullmer

  • #27
    Kirsten Fullmer
    “The poor man’s face twisted into a grimace and he pounded on the bar, protesting loudly. “Oh, you shush,” Kim demanded as she continued to knead his shoulders, jerking his whole body as she worked. “You’ll like this in a minute.”
    Kirsten Fullmer, Problems at the Pub

  • #28
    Patricia Briggs
    “One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs. ”
    Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

  • #29
    Victoria Thompson
    “One woman couldn’t change the world. She could just make small parts of it better.”
    Victoria Thompson, Murder on Astor Place

  • #30
    Victoria Thompson
    “Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.”
    Victoria Thompson, Murder in Murray Hill



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