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  • #1
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “He turned and smiled resolvedly at her.  He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with what she considered to be the silly confines of love or marriage.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #2
    “Cognitive robotics can integrate information from pre-operation medical records with real-time operating metrics to guide and enhance the precision of physicians’ instruments. By processing data from genuine surgical experiences, they’re able to provide new and improved insights and techniques. These kinds of improvements can improve patient outcomes and boost trust in AI throughout the surgery. Robotics can lead to a 21% reduction in length of stay.”
    Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

  • #3
    Max Nowaz
    “You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,” shrieked his hellish voice. Whether the beast was a man in a mask or a demon of his imagination, made little difference to Adam, He was petrified.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “Let me ask you another question, if I may,” Jake says. “Have you ever been in love?”

    “Yes. Sure, I have,” she answered defensively.

    “No. I mean really in love. The kind of love that makes you abandon all reason and throw caution to the wind. The kind of love that makes you trade logic for passion?”
    Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

  • #6
    Behcet Kaya
    “Quite a memory, Mr. Ludefance. I’m impressed. Did you at any time during this encounter think about the fact that the now dead person was there to steal the iPhones with the four billion in cryptocurrency?”
    “It occurred to me.”
    “And you still took aim and shot him?”
    “Detective, there was a gun pointed at me. Yes, I shot first. And I’d do the same thing again.”
    Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance

  • #7
    Therisa Peimer
    “Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #8
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #9
    K.  Ritz
    “The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #10
    Merlin Franco
    “Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #11
    Sara Pascoe
    “Then Raya saw Rebecca West, the fourteen-year-old who only saved her own life by testifying against her mother, and then she saw her own face reflected in these girls – a swirl of chance, and life and sorrow.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #12
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

  • #13
    Mitch Albom
    “Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #14
    David Foster Wallace
    “Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #15
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  • #16
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “(D)on't seek great reviews from small minds. They have neither the character nor the vocabulary for them.”
    E.L. Konigsburg, Up from Jericho Tel

  • #17
    Charles Dickens
    “Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield



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