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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Frank  Lambert
    “You could never kill a wyte, child. Instead of thinking of death, you need to think in terms of aging. The old cannot help but become less ambitious and more accepting as each moment ticks on by.”
    Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

  • #3
    Chad Boudreaux
    “Stepping back, Anika smiled at her prisoners and clicked open the Zippo. Its flame hopped to life. Wasting no time, she underhand-tossed the lighter through the air. It hit the middle of its target, and the banner exploded into flames. ”
    Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen: A Small-Town Political Thriller

  • #4
    John Rachel
    “The optimism was like the sun after a long spell of clouds and rain, a euphoric rush which produced both envy and awe in anyone who had become jaded, resigned, who had given up on their dreams.”
    John Rachel, Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun

  • #5
    Andri E. Elia
    “Let a sleeping dragon lie.”
    Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

  • #6
    K.  Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #7
    John Berendt
    “Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
    John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  • #8
    Dorothy Allison
    “I do not want to claim a safe and comfortable life for myself that is purchased at the cost of some other woman’s needs or desires.”
    Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be empty of worrying.
    Think of who created thought!

    Why do you stay in prison
    When the door is so wide open?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #10
    Anna Sewell
    “Poor things! I know what sort of treatment they have had. If they are timid, it makes them start or shy; if they are high-mettled, it makes them vicious or dangerous; their tempers are mostly made when they are young. Bless you! they are like children, train 'em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance, that is.”
    Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
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  • #11
    Nicholas Sparks
    “I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me. ”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

  • #12
    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all of your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And then for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name.
    and then the nightmares will begin.”
    Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

  • #13
    Shafter Bailey
    “The beautiful stranger cuddled Cindy, and she rocked the chair slightly as she spoke softly to her. “Suicide is a problem, not a solution. Humans you love would be hurt deeply if you left them. Becky Johnson and her parents would be crushed. Your grandparents in Florida never forget to mention your name in their evening prayers. I have loved you before and since your first heartbeat. Your father loves you. He will be rightfully proud when I tell him about your brave attempt to protect Pretty Boy.”
    “You will speak to Daddy?”
    “I will.”
    “Please, may I know? Who are you?”
    “I am your guardian angel, Cindy.”
    Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

  • #14
    “Making it to the Super Bowl is something few and far between. Many football players never get the opportunity to make it that far.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #15
    Dawn Chalker
    “It was the worst moment of my life, to realize she was really gone, never to return.”
                Tara does not know what it would be like to have lived with the same person, loved the same person, for so many years, and suddenly have them not be with you ever again.”
    dawn chalker, Lost and Found

  • #16
    Author Harold Phifer
    “Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
    But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.

    Meantime, we pressed onward to my dreaded hometown. I must have counted all the hog farms, catfish ponds, livestock yards, and chicken barns along our route. Being a country boy, I knew the smells, stinks, and how to identify them all. Yet dealing with my relatives and the death of Aunt Kathy were different kinds of shit to take in.”
    Harold Phifer, My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift

  • #17
    Lotchie Burton
    “The image of the sensual, sleep-laden Naomi made him smile. And wish he’d been lying on the pillow next to her when she’d opened her eyes. Lucky pillow.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #18
    Steven Decker
    “Mrs. Moreland, I am now remanding you into the custody of the Maricopa County Sheriff ’s Office while you await your sentence. All bond is revoked.
    We are adjourned.”
    Steven Decker, INNOCENT AGAIN: A LEGAL THRILLER

  • #19
    K.  Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #20
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
    Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

  • #21
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    “You've always stood it out again' me: now, I'll conquer ye, or kill ye!—one or t' other. I'll count every drop of blood there is in you, and take 'em, one by one, till ye give up!"

    Tom looked up to his master, and answered, "Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I'd give ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I'd give 'em freely, as the Lord gave his for me. O, Mas'r! don't bring this great sin on your soul! It will hurt you more than 't will me! Do the worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon; but, if ye don't repent, yours won't never end!”
    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  • #22
    Daphne du Maurier
    “A denial heralded the thrice crowing of a cock, and an insincerity was like the kiss of Judas.”
    Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

  • #23
    William Gibson
    “A Belgian journalist, struggling to describe the scene, had said that it resembled a cross between a permanent mass wake, an ongoing grad night for at least a dozen subcultures unheard of before the disaster, the black market cafes of occupied Paris, and Goya's idea of a dance party (assuming Goya had been Japanese and smoked freebase methamphetamine, which along with endless quantities of alcohol was clearly the Western World's substance of choice). It was, the Belgian said, as though the city, in its convolsion and grief, had spontaneously and necessarily generated this hidden pocket universe of the soul, its few unbroken windows painted over with black rubber aquarium paint. There would be no view of the ruptured city. As the reconstruction began around it, it had already become a benchmark in Tokyo's psychic history, an open secret, an urban legend.”
    William Gibson, Idoru

  • #24
    Diane Setterfield
    “...when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.”
    Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

  • #25
    “You're in fine temper," Raffin said.
    "Your hair is blue," she snapped back.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling



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