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  • #1
    “We all collide.”
    J R Lenk

  • #2
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.”
    Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes

  • #3
    Anthony Paull
    “Forget the trunk. You can have the back seat ... but you have to duck.”
    Anthony Paull

  • #4
    Brent Hartinger
    “I know that opposites attract, but who the hell wants to spend time with an opposite?”
    Brent Hartinger

  • #5
    Anthony Paull
    “Reality is overrated,” I reply, removing her wings.”
    Anthony Paull

  • #6
    “He falls asleep unsure if he is the spinner of this web or a creature trapped at its heart.”
    K M Soehnlein

  • #7
    K.M. Soehnlein
    “When people who aren't normal try to make their lives normal it doesn work.”
    K.M. Soehnlein

  • #8
    “Remember, in life, you can't have your cake, eat it too, and then expect a side plate of brownies. Make your choices and live with the consequences. Now - go think about it!”
    Matthew W Grant

  • #9
    Dale Peck
    “You show me a teenager who doesn’t like to be flattered and I’ll show you a teenager who’s got a steady source of sex.”
    Dale Peck

  • #10
    Dale Peck
    “Your past comes with you no matter where you go.”
    Dale Peck, Sprout

  • #11
    Dale Peck
    “Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.”
    Dale Peck, Sprout

  • #12
    Chris O'Guinn
    “If I couldn't hide from [bullies], then the next best thing was to blind them with my glorious fabulousness.”
    Chris O'Guinn, Exiled to Iowa. Send Help. And Couture.

  • #13
    Chris O'Guinn
    “Austin stared at me in shock. “You’re going to get us both killed.”

    “At least we’ll die pretty,” I told him with a smirk.”
    Chris O'Guinn, Exiled to Iowa. Send Help. And Couture.

  • #14
    Joe Dunthorne
    “Oliver, we’ve got something to tell you,” Dad says, dumping a cardboard box full of garden waste into a toad green mangler.
    Unlike the doctor, when Dad says we, he means we because Mum is omnipotent.
    “Who’s dead?” I ask, shot-putting a bottle of Richebourg.
    “No one’s dead.”
    “You’re getting a divorce?”
    “Oliver.”
    “Mum’s preggers?”
    “No, we—”
    “I’m adopted.”
    “Oliver! Please, shit up!”
    Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

  • #15
    Huston Piner
    “Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.”
    Huston Piner, My Life as a Myth

  • #16
    Huston Piner
    “In my family nudity just doesn’t exist; I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.”
    Huston Piner, My Life as a Myth

  • #17
    Brent Hartinger
    “Min hadn't just played the "friend" card — she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist.”
    Brent Hartinger

  • #18
    Huston Piner
    “I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped; so did the box of suds. It instructed me to separate the whites from the coloreds. Laundry will be the last American institution to desegregate.”
    Huston Piner

  • #19
    Anna Bayes
    “I know logically that I can live without him, but loving him has become such an integral, necessary part of my life; I am not sure I could stop, even if we parted.”
    Anna Bayes, Under His Wings

  • #20
    Nadezhda Mandelstam
    “I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
    Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

  • #21
    John  Goode
    “I don't remember the moment I knew I was broken...but I do know the moment I began to feel fixed. It was the day the green eyed boy fell in love with me.”
    John Goode, Maybe With a Chance of Certainty

  • #22
    Jay Bell
    “Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame.”
    Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #24
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #25
    Anna Bayes
    “Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.”
    Anna Bayes

  • #26
    Anna Bayes
    “The word 'teach' suddenly conveys a sense of menace that is foreign to me.”
    Anna Bayes, Ginny's Lesson

  • #27
    Anna Bayes
    “I just want mind-boggling sex tonight, but I don’t think you can beat my vibrator.”
    Anna Bayes, Snug Fit

  • #28
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #29
    Anna Bayes
    “If a guy can't even handle my words, I don't think he can handle me as a person.”
    Anna Bayes, Snug Fit

  • #30
    Huston Piner
    “On Algebra - "We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I'm concerned...Damn it! They put a man on the moon; can't they find some way to end the scourge of Algebra?”
    Huston Piner, My Life as a Myth



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