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Madeleine L'Engle
“There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.”
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door

John Green
“Okay, well, I feel more like seven things than one thing.”
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

Andrea Cremer
“I lose myself in Stephen without being lost.”
Andrea Cremer, Invisibility

Bernhard Schlink
“There are matters one simply cannot get drawn into, that one must distance oneself from, if the price is not life and limb.”
Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

Rick Riordan
“She glanced at Tyson, who'd lost interest in our conversation and was happily making toy boats out of cups and spoons in the lava.”
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

“This state of mind preyed upon my health, which had perhaps never entirely recovered from the first shock it had sustained. I shunned the face of men; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
Mary Shelly, Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Agatha Christie
“At that moment the door opened and a young woman walked into the room. She was, as the observant Inspector Narracott noted at once, a very exceptional kind of young woman. She was not strikingly beautiful, but she had a face which was arresting and unusual, a face that having once seen you could not forget. There was about her an atmosphere of common sense, savoir faire, invincible determination and a most tantalizing fascination.”
Agatha Christie, The Sittaford Mystery

Agatha Christie
“He was smiling again—a charming, boyish smile.”
Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy

Dorothy B. Hughes
“He jutted his chin and met Hugh’s eyes full with his own. His were like blue flint.”
Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

Dorothy B. Hughes
“But it was not this that caused Hugh to make his decision that he would tell the whole story to Hackaberry; it was something in the man himself. He could be wrong.”
Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

Dorothy B. Hughes
“Nevertheless it couldn’t be wrong to tell the truth, the whole truth. Right or wrong, the decision was Hugh’s. Only by the truth could his innocence be proved.”
Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man