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Book cover for The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
Words on paper are quiet, and porous; in the right mood, I sink down between the gaps in the letters and they close over my head. Words and paper. That’s the easy part. So I’ll be drifting in words, absorbing, and the words I absorb will be ...more
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Jan Eliasberg
“As the boy grew, he applied himself to the understanding of science and life, but always the first more readily than the second, for science was the logical aim of his own passionate curiosity, and life was the mystic parabola that eluded his grasp every time he became certain he had solved the equation of its inevitable arc.”
Jan Eliasberg, Hannah's War

Deanna Raybourn
“Be brave. You have everything you need,” I murmured to no one in particular. “Everything indeed.” Excelsior!”
Deanna Raybourn, A Sinister Revenge

Kelly Barnhill
“Even imperfect things can be precious, after all. The choice itself is precious. The smallness and the largeness of an individual life does not change the fundamental honor and value of every manifestation of our personhood.”
Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

Marthe Jocelyn
“I shall write him a murder story in a letter, but I won't put in the ending. I'll write the clues and the suspects and possibly the weapon, but my present to him will be that he can puzzle it out all by himself."

And so, I began to plot.”
Marthe Jocelyn, The Seaside Corpse

Jan Eliasberg
“We do what we do because of a deep-seated thrill that follows a familiar path from awakened inkling to assiduous pursuit to compulsive repetition, repetition, repetition, to final fruition, an instant of overtaking that engulfs all conscious thought and spiritual capacity, the mental equivalent of physical climax.”
Jan Eliasberg, Hannah's War

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