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  • #1
    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “He shoved her aside and forced his sword, to the hilt, straight through James’s torso.”
    Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood

  • #2
    C. Toni Graham
    “Get immersed in the beauty that surrounds you. No filters, edits, or adjustments. Experience the colors, sounds, textures and smells within your reach. Live.”
    C. Toni Graham

  • #3
    “To know our true essence, we need to leave all of the energy of low vibrations out of our consciousness. We must withdraw all of our life force from that realm, because it is parasitic. It has little life force of its own and cannot exist unless we give it life through our attention, imagination and emotions.”
    Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness

  • #4
    “Christ, I feel like a naughty schoolboy again,” said Alec as they walked into King’s Bench Walk. “We have just had a dressing-down by the headmaster. Strider could easily be a man handy with a cane.”
    “That man Strider is a crook,” said Bing-Wallace. “His utterances are like the product of a performance of Joseph Pujol … Le Pétomane!”
    “Who is Joseph Pujol?”
    “He is a well-known French flatulist performer.”
    “What?” Alec stopped dead,
    “A fartist, dear boy, a performer of farts.” Bing-Wallace began to giggle, as did Alec.”
    Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

  • #5
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Nguyen said, “Ho and I shall return to our positions on the deck, where we are keeping watches of two people on duty for two hours at a time.”

    He then continued, he said, “Cung, from what you have told me, you appear to be a loyal citizen of Vietnam. Yet, you are being hunted by the Vietnamese security organisations!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    Michael G. Kramer

  • #6
    Malorie Blackman
    “STOP IT! YOU’RE ALL BEHAVING LIKE ANIMALS!’ I shouted so hard my throat immediately began to hurt. ‘WORSE THAN ANIMALS – LIKE BLANKERS!”
    Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses

  • #7
    Christopher Hitchens
    “In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

  • #8
    Marissa Meyer
    “I don't compute.”
    Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

  • #9
    Katherine Dunn
    “The dumb little fuck was supposed to be so goddamn sensitive, how come he couldn’t figure it out? All he had to do to make me like him was need me. All he had to do to make Arty like him was drop dead.”
    Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

  • #10
    “As puzzled as I was by my classmates’ assumptions, their classification of me as a Black American nonetheless comforted me. Could it be that now, finally, I had my own group to belong to? Would Black Americans claim me just because the whites assigned me to them?”
    Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

  • #11
    Stephen Douglass
    “She’ll find you. Her need to know you will eventually consume her.”
    Stephen Douglass, The Tainted Trust



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