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  • #1
    Behcet Kaya
    “No, Rhodes. Everything is not okay. You know the lake just north of the university?”
    “Yeah, it’s all dried up now. Does that every summer.”
    “Well, there’s a dead body in the middle of it. You need to call the police and tell them to get out here, now.”
    Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

  • #2
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “His remains consigned to the elements and wolves, would scattered across the March.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #3
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Padre Crittle: … While resting on the side of the road I saw Amah Singh, one of the oldest Sikh inhabitants of Kamaing. He was walking very slowly with the aid of a bamboo. When he saw me he stopped and begged for something to eat. “Only half a biscuit, Sahib, only half a biscuit.” I am sure that he did not believe me when I told him I hadn’t got half a biscuit in the world …”
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942

  • #4
    “Her name wasn’t Jane. Not legally. But she wore it now like a uniform: plain, practical, invisible.”
    D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

  • #5
    Munro Leaf
    “And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly”
    Munro Leaf, The Story of Ferdinand

  • #6
    William Golding
    “Bollocks to the rules!”
    William Golding, Lord of the Flies

  • #7
    Dr. Seuss
    “Why fit in when you were born to stand out”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #8
    Dean Koontz
    “Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.”
    Dean Koontz, Odd Hours

  • #9
    Evelyn Waugh
    “All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
    tags: humor, sex

  • #10
    Jean M. Auel
    “As Creb looked at the peaceful, trusting face of the strange girl in his lap, he felt a deep love flowering in his soul for her.”
    Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear



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