Sidney Canson

“The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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― Barry Kirwan, Eden's Trial

“What does it take to break a person?

Torturers and interrogators would be able to provide statistics. This many nights without sleep, this many needles, this much water, this voltage of current on this many occasions.

But there is considerable variation in people's ability to withstand torture. Sometimes one can achieve the desired result simply by showing the instruments and explaining what is to be done with them. Sometimes it takes weeks; one may be forced to restart a heart which has given out from the pain, and even then one may not manage to break the subject down.

However, it is presumably possible to discern some kind of average. This many needles, this many blows to the soles of the feet, before most people are sufficiently destroyed to give up what they once held most dear.

But in everyday life?”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist

“All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce
The Black Cauldron (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander
The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak
Brian’s Hunt by Gary Paulsen
Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The High King (The Chronicles of Prydain) by Lloyd Alexander
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I Am LeBron James by Grace Norwich
I Am Stephen Curry by Jon Fishman
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
LeBron’s Dream Team: How Five Friends Made History by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger
The Lightning Thief  (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) by Rick Riordan
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The River by Gary Paulsen
The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury
Star Wars Expanded Universe novels (written by many authors)
Star Wars series (written by many authors)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess (Dork Diaries) by Rachel Renée Russell
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle”
― Andrew Clements, The Losers Club