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  • #1
    Yvonne Korshak
    “Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?” he asked. Yellow hair like hers was rare among the Greeks. Though some people say that Helen of Troy . . .”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #2
    Sara Pascoe
    “The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #3
    Ami Loper
    “When I hear that still, small Voice wooing me and asking me to drop everything and spend time with Him, I need to be willing to yield.”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #4
    “It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify.”
    Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

  • #5
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “We hunt as we've always done, part sport, part grocery shopping.”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #6
    Merlin Franco
    “We have only one option, to struggle or succumb. The choice is ours.”
    Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

  • #7
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #8
    Jean Craighead George
    “and June burst over the mountain. It smelled good, tasted good, and was gentle to the eyes.”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

  • #9
    Lisa Genova
    “Whatever you do over and over changes your brain, then your brain changes how you move your body. There’s”
    Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting - A New York Times bestseller!

  • #10
    Lawrence Hill
    “Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons.”
    Lawrence Hill, The Book of Negroes

  • #11
    Rachel Carson
    “We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment?”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #12
    Marcel Proust
    “Once we have reached a certain degree of enfeeblement, whether caused by age or by ill health, all pleasure taken at the expense of sleep, every disturbance of routine, becomes a nuisance.”
    Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

  • #13
    Sylvia Plath
    “You do not do, you do not do
    Any more, black shoe
    In which I have lived like a foot
    For thirty years, poor and white,
    Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

    Daddy, I have had to kill you.
    You died before I had time―
    Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
    Ghastly statue with one grey toe
    Big as a Frisco seal”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel



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