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  • #1
    Shafter Bailey
    “We must go back to the firm discipline and simplicity of the one-room schoolhouse to find a better education for our children.”
    Shafter Bailey, James Ed Hoskins and the One-Room Schoolhouse: The Unprosecuted Crime Against Children

  • #2
    “The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #3
    Sara Pascoe
    “Raya knew this type of girl – they never liked her. Usually they’d make fun of her, behind her back, but loud enough for her to hear. She was too alternative, too poor and too cynical – the foster kid – to be of any interest to these social climbers.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #4
    “I have watched people come to revival meetings burdened, broken, and hopeless, and then leave completely transformed. The difference is undeniable—their eyes are brighter, their posture changes, and their spirit is lighter because Jesus set them free.”
    Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

  • #5
    “I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #6
    Max Nowaz
    “He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire."
        "And you? What are your plans?"
        "I have no plans to kill your father.”
    Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

  • #7
    J. Rose Black
    “She made a face at him, and he could picture her, as a child princess—sticking her tongue out at a playmate in her princess castle. ”
    J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

  • #8
    Lotchie Burton
    “Everybody has scars, and every scar has a story. Especially the ones you don’t see. Those go deeper. And cause more damage.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #9
    Author Harold Phifer
    “I ended up sitting right next to Sexy Patty. The placement wasn’t on purpose. (I needed the hands of God, not a girlfriend.) Since I was dealing with my own issues, I failed to notice that she was clenching a napkin and sweating profusely from head to toe. Nonetheless, she looked hotter than a fever.”
    Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Jean Craighead George
    “Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning. When the sky lightened, when the birds awoke, I knew I would never again see anything so splendid as the round red sun coming up over the earth.”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

  • #12
    Maya Angelou
    “History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #13
    Edwin A. Abbott
    “so that even a Woman in reasonable health can journey several furlongs northward without much difficulty—”
    Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

  • #14
    Muriel Barbery
    “Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.”
    Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #16
    Günter Grass
    “Better start running, the Black Cook’s coming! Ha! Ha! Ha!”
    Günter Grass, The Tin Drum



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