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  • #1
    Therisa Peimer
    “Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #2
    Frank  Lambert
    “Evil is not man-made. Evil is natural, like the sun rising each morning, the moon revolving around the earth, and the strong eating the weak.

    Jeremiah Hobb”
    Frank Lambert, Cult of the Clan

  • #3
    Jeffrey S.  Stephens
    “Reagan took a half step closer, until he was right in his face. “When the time comes, they’ll give you up like a bad habit. Just like your filthy little henchman turned on you. It’s the way of the world”
    Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us

  • #4
    Barry Kirwan
    “Nathan had never wanted children of his own. Plenty of reasons. Babies screamed as soon as they were born – wasn’t that warning enough of what was to come? And when they grew into toddlers, and then young kids, they were far worse: tantrums, more screaming, whining. How many business trips, restaurant dinners, theatre visits, you name it, were ruined by one small, precocious loud brat and its doting, utterly useless parents? No discipline any more. Nathan had sure been disciplined.”
    Barry Kirwan, When the children come

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Nancy O'Meara
    “The person at the other end is answering questions from a person she has never met and about whom she knows nothing. Good manners from you will certainly elicit a more complete response than a threatening or superior attitude.”
    Nancy O'Meara, The Cult around the Corner: A Handbook on Dealing with Other People's Religions

  • #7
    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #8
    Gary Chapman
    “You may truly love your child, but unless she feels it—she will not feel loved.”
    Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages of Children

  • #9
    Umberto Eco
    “لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسها المرء بقلبه , أترك قلبك يتكلم ,إسأل الوجوه و لا تستمع إلى الألسن”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #10
    Gregory David Roberts
    “There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.”
    Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

  • #11
    Kristin Hannah
    “The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very end of this great land. And now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.”
    Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

  • #12
    Bryce Courtenay
    “More fights are lost by underestimating your opponent than by any other way.”
    Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

  • #13
    Lionel Shriver
    “Maybe it was different for you and Valerie, since you didn't like each other much. But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power of which their parents know practically nothing.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #14
    Max Nowaz
    “You don’t think he’s our man?” asked Adam. It occurred to him that Ramsbottom was not exactly forthcoming with information.
    “I didn’t say that,” Ramsbottom said. “In fact he is behaving very cautiously indeed, which makes me feel very suspicious.”
    “He has probably figured out that you are following him,” said Adam. “One can hardly fail to notice you hanging around all the time.”
    “That may be so,” said Ramsbottom.
    “Can’t you get a disguise or something?” asked Adam. “So he does not recognise you.”
    Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

  • #15
    K.  Ritz
    “Gossip is like thread wound over a spindle of truth, changing its shape.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #16
    Paramahansa Yogananda
    “The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
    Paramahansa Yogananda

  • #17
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

  • #18
    Mark Bowden
    “Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. “There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid.”
    Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

  • #19
    Forrest Carter
    “Granpa always said that if you was spoken to, treat such with proper respect and give full attention to what was being said.”
    Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

  • #20
    John Ajvide Lindqvist
    “She showed her true face - there was something in it that was... Pure Horror”
    John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

  • #21
    Alan Brennert
    “Diedrichson looked at her a moment as if processing a foreign and generally unwanted thought—then, to her surprise, his frown up-ended itself into a smile.”
    Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

  • #22
    Mark Helprin
    “to cite Montaigne, “Nature always gives us happier laws than those we give ourselves.”125”
    Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto – A Rational Attack on Creative Commons and Defense of Copyright

  • #23
    Anthony Burgess
    “A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”
    Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

  • #24
    James Herriot
    “was an empty landscape where no creature stirred and all was silent except for the cry of a distant bird, and yet I felt a further surge of excitement in the solitude, a tingling sense of the nearness of all creation.”
    James Herriot, Every Living Thing

  • #25
    Diana Wynne Jones
    “Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.”
    Diana Wynne Jones, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland



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