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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea.” Adam tried to protest and break away, but it was too late. She had a good hold on him by now, and he was going nowhere.
    “Not bad for a little man like you,” she said. “There seems to be something different about you lately.” Rachael smiled.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #2
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Pericles let a moment pass, then another. The Spartans needed time to set in balance the risks of accepting the offer and the joys of being rich. Not as much time as he’d expected, though.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #3
    Orson Scott Card
    “I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #4
    John Stuart Mill
    “One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.”
    John Stuart Mill

  • #5
    Jean-Dominique Bauby
    “Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.”
    Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

  • #6
    Trevor Alan Foris
    “... you of all people should know that all is not as it may appear.”
    Trevor Alan Foris, The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue

  • #7
    Jim Fergus
    “elicted”
    Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

  • #8
    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “I live at the end of some interminable corridor which the lucky damned can call hell but which the much unluckier atheists - and your mother heads up that bunch- must simply get used to calling home.”
    Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

  • #9
    Sara Pascoe
    “Who could blame her for choosing fighting aliens and evil instead of just being an ordinary mum?”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #10
    Anne  Michaud
    “When people grow up in a home where extramarital sex is condoned, they’re much less likely to regard it as a deal-breaker. Jacqueline Bouvier’s father, ‘Black Jack,’ confided in her about his female conquests, even going so far as to play a game with Jackie when he visited her at boarding school. She would point to a classmate’s mother, and Jack would respond, ‘Yes’ or ‘Not yet’ — answering the silent question, had he slept with that one?”
    Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

  • #11
    “Sleep well, my beautiful lover,” I said. “. . . the journey is just getting started.”
    Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

  • #12
    Max Nowaz
    “Where’s my uncle?” she asked.
    “I don’t know who your uncle is, but if it as the guy who owned this place before I bought it, then he’s pushing up daisies.”
    “But it can’t be, he’s still young.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #13
    J.L. Marrain
    “The grass was plush under his feet as he flew down the right flank of the field.”
    J L MARRAIN, THE GRIDD: PERILS OF THE LIGHTHOLDER

  • #14
    “Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #15
    “The Future Isn’t As Scary As It Looks”
    Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

  • #16
    Louis de Bernières
    “I used to have nightmare about having petrol poured over me, and being set on fire, and nowadays I have nightmares that I have wooden teeth and that they are continually falling out, as if I had an infinite number of them. It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.”
    Louis de Bernieres

  • #17
    Nick Hornby
    “I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.”
    Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
    tags: books

  • #18
    O. Henry
    “You see this robe that I wear?” Bellchambers caressingly touched the straight-hanging garment: “At last I have found something that will not bag at the knees.”
    O. Henry, Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry

  • #19
    Ruta Sepetys
    “Will YOU REMEMBER ME? A boy with wings of hope.
    Strapped to his back.
    That never had a chance to open, denied Fforever knowing,
    What he could have become. What we all could have become.”
    Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

  • #20
    Eric Carle
    “One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.”
    Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

  • #21
    Tim Butcher
    “the most valuable asset stolen from the Congo was the sovereignty of its people.”
    Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country



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