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  • #1
    Michael              Parker
    “And what the sharp old medic suggested to the Pentagon sent shivers down their spines and set the alarm bells ringing all the way to the White House”
    Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

  • #2
    Barry Kirwan
    “They must train you pretty good not to react to shit like that. Must take stuff out of you.” Vince’s eyes intensified then broke her gaze. ‘Actually, it’s more like they put stuff in.”
    Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox

  • #3
    Yvonne Korshak
    “It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #4
    James Dashner
    “[Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy off the wall. He threw it on the ground behind him and kept running.
    “Bread crumbs?” Thomas asked, the old fairy tale popping into his mind. Such odd glimpses of his past had almost stopped surprising him.
    “Bread crumbs,” Minho replied. “I’m Hansel, you’re Gretel.”
    James Dashner, The Maze Runner

  • #5
    Ovid
    “Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.”
    Ovid, Metamorphoses

  • #6
    James Herriot
    “Though in her late thirties, she had no fears of spinsterhood because she had been assiduously courted for fifteen years by Charlie Hudson from the Darrowby fish shop and though Charlie was not a tempestuous suitor there was nothing flighty about him and he was confidently expected to pop the question over the next ten years or so. Mr.”
    James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small / All Things Bright and Beautiful / All Things Wise and Wonderful: Three James Herriot Classics

  • #7
    Martin Heidegger
    “Mere anxiety is the source of everything”
    Martin Heidegger

  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #9
    Randy Pausch
    “If you wait long enough,” he said, “people will surprise and impress you.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

  • #10
    Susan  Rowland
    “   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #11
    Michael              Parker
    “Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.”
    Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

  • #12
    Barry Kirwan
    “He glanced at Sally. She sat on the edge, her feet dangling over the two-hundred-foot drop, just like he’d done all those years ago, secretly hoping his parents would tell him to come back, that it was dangerous. They never even got out of the car.”
    Barry Kirwan, When the children come

  • #13
    Paullina Simons
    “Y mantendré a Tatiana libre de toda pena,
    y en un par de años, quién sabe, quizás obtenga una buena posición,
    y será de Tatiana la misión de criar y educar a nuestros hijos.
    Así viviremos, y para siempre seremos uno,
    hasta que la muerte nos
    separe y los nietos nos pongan a descansar...”
    Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

  • #14
    Jodi Picoult
    “Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #15
    Jean Craighead George
    “Won’t everything be all right if she’s free?”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

  • #16
    Christopher Hitchens
    “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
    Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

  • #17
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

  • #18
    Clement Clarke Moore
    “of toys—and St. Nicholas too.”
    Clement C. Moore, A Visit From Saint Nicholas



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