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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

  • #2
    “If the onset of wrinkles in middle age were referred to as laughter lines, then to look at him, Scott thought, Twinkle's life must have been hilarious. He had sharp eyes that often seemed to visually contradict the lack of intelligence that could be derived from listening to him talk. There might not be a lot to respect in Twinkle, but Scott liked him. He just didn't want to end up like him.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #3
    Tricia Copeland
    “If I read this right, Gunther had not come to offer me congratulations. I will not give him the satisfaction of thinking me scared or insecure. I will fake calm, confident, and regal.” 
”
    Tricia Copeland, To Be a Fae Queen

  • #4
    K.  Ritz
    “At what point does faith become insanity?”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #5
    Mark   Ellis
    “Merlin stood up. For once, late as it was, he was pleased to see the Assistant Commissioner because he had been trying unsuccessfully to get hold of him all day. “May I introduce Detective Bernard Goldberg of the New York Police Department.”
    Merlin held out a hand to the stocky young man now standing on the AC’s right. Detective Goldberg was an inch or two shorter than Merlin, with a closely cropped head of dark-brown hair and the crumpled face of a man who might have walked into a wall.”
    Mark Ellis, The French Spy

  • #6
    Stendhal
    “After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #7
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #8
    Sylvia Plath
    “Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way the Spartan way - and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.”
    sylvia plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #9
    “Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words.”
    Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

  • #10
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

  • #11
    Patrick Ness
    “Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.”
    Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here



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