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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #2
    Frank  Lambert
    “Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
    Frank Lambert, Xyz

  • #3
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised, “The Athenians will look like gods.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #4
    “By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
    Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

  • #5
    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.”
    Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

  • #6
    Evelyn Waugh
    “No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
    tags: faith

  • #7
    “She wore people down like waves wore down stone.
    Consistent. Patient. Relentless. Merciless.
           ”
    D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

  • #8
    Behcet Kaya
    “Before I could answer, there was a soft knock on the door. I turned to see an auburn-haired, green-eyed, freckle-faced young woman walk in. Her hair was a mass of soft curls and she wore no makeup. My first impression was to describe her as a plain-Jane. On closer inspection, hers was a strong and unique face. She dressed in slacks, silk blouse, and no visible jewelry. All of which, to me, indicated serene confidence. Her green eyes were piercing with almost a wild look to them. She handed the contract copies to the lawyer.”
    Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

  • #9
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #10
    Todor Bombov
    “… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization  could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
    Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

  • #11
    Michael Crichton
    “Let’s be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.”
    Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

  • #12
    Peter B. Forster
    “Words are not enough. Not mine, cut off at the throat before they breathe. Never forming, broken and swallowed, tossed into the void before they are heard. It would be easy to follow, fall to my knees, prostrate before the deli counter. Sweep the shelves clear, scatter the tins, pound the cakes to powder. Supermarket isles stretching out in macabre displays. Christmas madness, sad songs and mistletoe, packed car parks, rotten leaves banked up in corners. Forgotten reminders of summer before the storm. Never trust a promise, they take prisoners and wishes never come true. Fairy stories can have grim endings and I don’t know how I will face the world without you.”
    Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

  • #13
    Malcolm X
    “لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا.”
    Malcolm X

  • #14
    Rhonda Byrne
    “Money is only a tool for you to experience the things you love in life. When you think about the things you can do with money, you will feel much more love and joy than when you think only of money. Imagine being with what you love, doing what you love, and having the things you love, because you will then feel far more love than you will if you only think about money.”
    Rhonda Byrne, The Power

  • #15
    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all.
    'Does that scare you?'
    Chad nods.
    'Why?' asks his father.
    'It's like something's waiting.”
    Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

  • #16
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, 'Stay mad! You won't even let me get mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky?"

    "Yes. And people who don't love music and books."

    "And people," John said.”
    Madeleine L'Engle



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