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  • #1
    “Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #2
    Lotchie Burton
    “There’s no point in fighting me on this. Wherever you go, one, or both of us will be with you. Period. Get used to it. Short of actually sleeping on your doorstep, I’m going to follow you everywhere. I’m going to be so close that if you turn your head for a breath I’ll be there to give you mouth-to-mouth. So, you may as well just give in and take me with you. It’ll save us both a lot of time and frustration.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #3
    J. Rose Black
    “Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
    J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

  • #4
    Susan  Rowland
    “Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party for the convenience of the police. It’s like an old-fashioned mystery novel.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #5
    K.  Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #6
    “Make no mistake: You will be challenged at some point in time. We all are. That’s just life.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #7
    Emma Donoghue
    “There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.”
    Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

  • #8
    Nicole Krauss
    “Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.”
    Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

  • #9
    Lisa See
    “إن مشكلة العيش لمدة طويلة هي أن المرء يرى كثيرًا من الناس يمرون أمام عينيه”
    Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

  • #10
    Eric Carle
    “He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...

    he was a beautiful butterfly!”
    Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “To those who are given much, much is expected.”
    Maya Angelou



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