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    “From the vaulted arches several stories above us, entire, mature trees were growing, reaching leafy boughs down into the open air between the floor and ceiling. There was a full glade growing up there, oak, birch, maple, and elm, like someone had carved out a few acres of the park and fixed it there upside down.”
    Edward Williams

  • #2
    Robert         Reid
    “The oak trees seemed as though they were playing instruments; here a gentle violin, over there two harps in harmony, flutes and other woodwinds joined the tree orchestra.”
    Robert Reid, The Empress:

  • #3
    Merlin Franco
    “Flowers of the garden are
    Flashy, fragrant, and fair
    But
    Yearn ye not, my bairn
    They live at the mercy of man”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #4
    “To whomever swapped my tattoo cream for toothpaste........ well played.”
    R.D. Ronald

  • #5
    Paul A. Barra
    “That sounds like Russian interference to me.” “Agreed.”
They sat sipping their drinks.
“Should we even be drinking vodka?”
    Paul A. Barra, Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

  • #6
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “All happened so damn fast,” he said. “’Phone call here after she arrived. Her mom and dad were just after leaving Halifax…ten cars, twelve maybe, made it onto the CBC News.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #7
    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #8
    Jay Asher
    “After all, how often do we get a second chance?”
    Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

  • #9
    Günter Grass
    “Что поделать, литература живет за счет оторванной пуговицы или ржавого гвоздя от подковы, за счет бренности человека и тем самым за счет выветрившихся надгробий.”
    Günter Grass, Peeling the Onion

  • #10
    Michael Cunningham
    “You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #11
    Mildred D. Taylor
    “It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not.”
    Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  • #12
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Once I blazed across the sky,
    Leaving trails of flame;
    I fell to earth, and here I lie -
    Who'll help me up again?
    -A Shooting Star”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  • #13
    Susan Cain
    “الأنطوائيون , في المقابل , ربما لديهم مهارات أجتماعية قوية ويتمتعون باللقاء في الحفلات والاعمال , لكن بعد حين يرغبون لو كانوا في قمصان النوم في بيوتهم . أنهم يفضلون تكريس طاقتهم الاجتماعية لأصدقائهم المقربين والزملاء والعائلة , أنهم ينصتون أكثر مما يتكلمون , ويفكرون قبل أن يتكلمون , و يشعرون غالباً أنهم أفضل في التعبير عن أنفسهم في الكتابة أكثر من المحادثة , وهم يكرهون الصراع , وكثير منهم يرعبهم الحوار القصير ولكن يتمتعون بالنقاشات العميقة”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking



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