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  • #1
    “If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #2
    Michael G. Kramer
    “After I return to Australia, I promise you that I shall… qualify as an engineer and then return here and help your people out.”
    Michael G. Kramer, The Full Circle for Mick

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Mark   Ellis
    “Colonel Aubertin and his two colleagues sat on a park bench in the private garden of Dorset Square. Rougemont sat between his two superiors, pleased that for once the commandant appeared to have had an abstemious lunch. “Major Vane-Stewart was telling me the other day that this was once the site of the first important cricket ground in London, established by the same Thomas Lord who later built the famous ground that bears his name, a few miles to the north of us in St. John’s Wood. There is a plaque recording this fact in that shed over there. In the middle of the square.”
    “Cricket.” Angers spat out the words with disgust. “A stupid game played by idiots. Only the English could invent such a boring name.”
    Mark Ellis, The French Spy

  • #5
    Susan  Rowland
    “We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #6
    H. Meadow Hopewell
    “The further you chase the truth, the more you’ll be repulsed by the deception.”
    H. Meadow Hopewell, Rage Against the Machine

  • #7
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “I knew I rode a rugged crest of turmoil that might crash on the rocky shore of irrational behavior.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

  • #8
    Theasa Tuohy
    “Miranda's reward to herself, after a chief investigator dubbed her "the Eloise of four-year-old detectives," was to stretch her age.  She’d now taken to informing people that she was four- and-a-half-and-three-quarters. She didn't seem to grasp the concept of almost-five.”
    Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

  • #9
    Gary Clemenceau
    “The Green Judges, most of them decidedly miffed, grumbled out one by one, though I got a wink and a thumbsup from Washington.”
    Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

  • #10
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

  • #11
    Annie Proulx
    “You are a knowledgeable girl,” he said, “and a damn good-lookin one, though upholstered. Care for a beer?”
    Annie Proulx, Close Range

  • #12
    Peggy Parish
    “The door opened.
    "We're here," said Mrs. Rogers.
    Aunt Myra came in.
    "Now!" said Amelia Bedelia.
    "Greetings, greetings, greetings,"
    said the three children.
    "What's that about?" said Mrs. Rogers.
    "You said to greet Aunt Myra with Carols," said Amelia Bedelia.
    "Here's Carol Lee, Carol Green, and Carol Lake."
    "What lovely Carols," said Aunt Myra.
    "Thank you.”
    Peggy Parish, Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia

  • #13
    Roald Dahl
    “I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #14
    Walter  Scott
    “Mientras la ambición y las ansias de poder gobiernen el corazón de algunos hombres, no habrá paz duradera en la tierra. La guerra, por desgracia, es condición humana.”
    Walter Scott

  • #15
    “this Constitution”
    Founding Fathers, The United States Constitution



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