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  • #1
    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #2
    Lotchie Burton
    “Yeah. I’m an asshole. But I promise you, when the shit rolls downhill and you need someone with a shovel, I’m an asshole who can get the job done.”
    Lotchie Burton, Gabriel's Fire

  • #3
    Susan  Rowland
    “George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #4
    K.  Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #5
    Tom Hillman
    “In the rose garden, the flowers are maneuvering toward the winter sunshine and the alluring sound of the koi pond’s waterfall makes you think it has a crush on you. You offer no resistance—you are done (at least temporarily) with the “regular” world.”
    Tom Hillman, Digging for God

  • #6
    A.R. Merrydew
    “   ‘I see you made it Jack,’ he started to say, noticing a silver sphere roll across the loading bay floor. It stopped just short of his shoes before it exploded.”
    Anthony Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

  • #7
    “I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #8
    J. Rose Black
    “I held my breath and closed my eyes, just listening to the wordless song of falling.”
    J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #10
    Shirley Jackson
    “The reassuring bulk of the college buildings showed ahead of her, and she looked fondly up at them and smiled. As she had never been before, she was now alone, and grown-up, and powerful, and not at all afraid.”
    Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

  • #11
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.”
    E.L. Konigsburg, Up from Jericho Tel

  • #12
    Salman Rushdie
    “For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake”
    Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

  • #13
    Aldo Leopold
    “What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
    Aldo Leopold

  • #14
    Jim Fergus
    “Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.”
    Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd



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