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“The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane's heart.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River

“I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.”
― António Lobo Antunes, The Land at the End of the World

“If you want to feel like ginger ale Claire, drink a ginger ale.”
― Ann Hood, The Obituary Writer

“It is never too late to apply good sense as a corrective to stupidity.”
― David Ignatius, Bloodmoney