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“Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the
kind of things remembered forever after it didn't have to be a life-changing event like a graduation or
marriage or birth of a child. It more often was the small things. The sheer joy of summer sunlight on a
fragrant flower. The giggle of a toddler. The brush of a lover's fingertips. And the person marks the
moment with the flashing insight thinking... This is special. I should remember this”
― Sandra Hill, Tall, Dark, and Cajun

“He stared at her breasts incredulously, but not with lust. "For the love of Freya! You wear Ruby's strange undergarment. Lingerie, methinks she named it."
"This is not my mother's bra." Rain clamped her jaw shut defiantly, then demanded to know, "How did you ever see my mother's underwear?”
― Sandra Hill, The Outlaw Viking

“Oh, please, spare me the male ego. I'm not repulsed by sex, and I can reach an orgasm as well as any woman. After all, there are fifty-seven erotic points on a woman's body. If a man can't find one of them, he needs a flashlight and a sex manual.”
― Sandra Hill, The Outlaw Viking

“You doan go diggin' for gold in an outhouse.”
― Sandra Hill, Tall, Dark, and Cajun

“Being a Viking's guarian angel is hard work...”
― Sandra Hill, The Outlaw Viking

“Her snooch got all warm”
― Sandra Hill, Rough and Ready

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
― Langston Hughes