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  • #1
    Steven Decker
    “One thing I know for certain is that I want to go back in time and save all the people I killed.”
    Steven Decker, Addicted to Time

  • #2
    Author Harold Phifer
    “The teacher pulled out a pile of papers. They were Bennie’s tests and homework assignments. Mrs. Lewis said, “Ma’am, here is the proof that Bennie isn’t up to a fourth grade level. He has an F on several of these assignments. In fact, a zero grade is too high for some of Bennie’s work this last year.”
    Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

  • #3
    “My grandmother said, ‘It doesn’t really matter where you had to go, where you got the ring, or where you played the Super Bowl, all that matters is that you put in the work, you deserved it, and you earned it.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #4
    Dawn Chalker
    “I think about my sister, Becca, a lot.  We didn’t always agree about things, but she was always there for me when I needed her.  I thought she would outlive me, that she would always be here.”
    Dawn Chalker, Lost and Found

  • #5
    “We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

  • #6
    “I’ve seen the anointing at work time and time again—people healed, oppression lifted, and lives completely transformed in an instant.”
    Kathryn Krick, Unlock Your Deliverance: Keys to Freedom From Demonic Oppression

  • #7
    Todor Bombov
    “There is no word that admits of more various significations, and has made more varied impressions on the human mind, than that of liberty.” (Montesquieu) In order to exist, liberty and justice in a society, there should be equality in this society before them and together with them. Only then can we speak of humanism. Only socially equal personalities are free. And only free and equal in rights personalities could “love each other like brothers.”
    Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

  • #8
    “Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #9
    Sara Pascoe
    “If I were a scientist watching her, what would I write down as the results? Woman who had neglectful/scary childhood finds comfort in fictional representations of families?”
    Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek

  • #12
    Bev Stout
    “He glared at her. "Aye, and you shall be the best cabin boy I have ever had or I will feed you to the sharks. Savvy?" He turned and stomped back to the
    ship”
    Bev Stout, Secrets of the Realm

  • #13
    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “علمت أنه حين تشق الروح الهادية العظيمة الإنسانية إلى شطرين متصارعين، سأكون الى جانب الشعب”
    Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

  • #14
    John Fowles
    “It’s rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven’t any choice. But it’s what you say that counts. It’s what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.”
    John Fowles, The Collector

  • #15
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Avoid popularity if you would have peace”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #16
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #17
    “Theo, no matter what happens in life, you must always remember that we live in a mathematically precise world. Everything that happens has a reason and even though we rarely understand those reasons and often don’t even see them, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
    Alexander Morpheigh

  • #18
    Robert         Reid
    “Next morning, while her children were still asleep in their tent, Evie got up early. The acorn she had planted the day before had sprung to life and was nearly ten feet high. Sitting on the fallen log where the forest boy had sat thirty years earlier, she listened. There was no dancing partner. Maybe she was now too old, but the oak trees did sing for her.”
    Robert Reid, The Empress:

  • #19
    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #20
    Gary Clemenceau
    “About a third of the motel was painted a sandy beige, with a tide line of rain revealing the original color: faded green, the color of old money.”
    Gary Clemenceau, Banker's Holiday: A Novel of Fiscal Irregularity

  • #21
    Todor Bombov
    “This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system in East Europe was called socialism and even by the scientific nonsense and absurd names of Communism and Communist system. In this system, the official ideology was allegedly Marxism, but really it could not endure any Marxist criticism. Since this “socialist” system was afraid of the weapon of criticism, it applied criticism of the weapon against its own citizens, as Marx would have said.”
    Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

  • #22
    Ashby Jones
    “
How many times had she heard her father tread on the old baseball analogy, if you don't swing at the third strike, there's no chance of hitting the ball.”
    Ashby Jones, The Little Bird

  • #23
    “Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...”
    R.D. Ronald

  • #24
    “Santa Fe’s night usually held a scatter of voices, a stray laugh, a dog bark; tonight the silence carried weight, like the city itself was holding its breath.”
    D.L. Maddox, Stolen

  • #25
    Bram Stoker
    “All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #26
    Clement Clarke Moore
    “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
    Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas

  • #27
    Peter B. Forster
    “Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much”
    Peter B. Forster, More Than Love, A Husband's Tale

  • #28
    Junot Díaz
    “Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a Lensman her lens. Couldn’t have passed for Normal if he’d wanted to.”
    Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  • #29
    John Bunyan
    “And that though one man may tell another how he should pray: yet, as I said before, he cannot pray, nor make his condition known to God, except the Spirit help.  It is not the Common Prayer-Book that can do this.  It is the Spirit that showeth us our sins, and the Spirit that showeth us a Saviour, Jn. xvi. 16, and the Spirit that stirreth up in our hearts desires to come to God, for such things as we stand in need of, Matt. xi. 27, even sighing out our souls unto Him for them with groans which cannot be uttered.  With other words to the”
    John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners



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