Loni Peakes

“Striker counted twenty-eight rabbits pulling the roots at the front of the cage, with at least twenty more rabbits on each side and twenty or so pushing from the back. “I could easily kill them all!” Striker thought, as the ground gave way and everything went dark.”
― Kevin Moccia, The Beagle and the Hare

“Kindness is scarce in the world”
― Alan Brennert, Daughter of Moloka'i

“Has there ever been a child like Eva? Yes, there have been; but their names are always on grave-stones, and their sweet smiles, their heavenly eyes, their singular words and ways, are among the buried treasures of yearning hearts. In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not. It is as if heaven had an especial band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and endear to them the wayward human heart, that they might bear it upward with them in their homeward flight. When you see that deep, spiritual light in the eye,—when the little soul reveals itself in words sweeter and wiser than the ordinary words of children,—hope not to retain that child; for the seal of heaven is on it, and the light of immortality looks out from its eyes.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“odd-looking, rotund prelate was a marvelous raconteur,”
― Robert Ludlum, The Road to Gandolfo