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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Say what you like: God is just, after all.”
― Oliver Potzsch, The Hangman's Daughter

“Life went on, despite all the dying.”
― Oliver Potzsch, The Hangman's Daughter

“The hangman, a friend of humanity--who would have thought it?”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Hangman's Daughter

“I tell my seven-year-old son about his remarkable forefathers. I leave out the bloody details. (For him these people are like knights, which sounds better than hangmen or executioners.) In his bedroom hangs a collage made up of photos of long-dead family members--great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, their aunts, their uncles, their nephews and nieces..Sometimes at night he wants to hear stories about these people, and I tell him what I know about them. Happy stories, sad stories, frightening stories. For him the family is a safe refuge, a link binding him to many people whom he loves and who love him. I once heard that everyone on this earth is at least distantly related to everyone else. Somehow this is a comforting idea.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Hangman's Daughter

“The temerity of [Christian Grey] is astounding. E.L. James has managed to create one of the most blatantly antagonistic sociopaths I've ever seen, yet women everywhere are gobbling it up like he's the best thing since the vibrator.”
― Katrina Passick Lumsden

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

“Don’t never underestimate the power of doin’ the right thing”
― Ninie Hammon, Five Days in May

“But the world turned, and it changed, and eventually all tyrants fell to become dust.”
― Ashley Gardner, Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume Two

“Just as she opened her mouth to scream, she hit the water and went under.”
― Geoff Jones, The Dinosaur Four

“The bubbles rose from the nostrils of a forty-foot crocodile which had followed them from the ruined building.”
― Geoff Jones, The Dinosaur Four

“Lady, I know death will come but I avoid it because I can rationally foresee the devastation it will wreak upon my life. Yet after death, I will be beyond this mortal coil, and either in eternal pleasure or damnation. This thing that you do is worse than death, as it will leave me alive and in a perpetual state of agony. You may as well cast me into Hell.” She”
― W.A. Hoffman, Brethren

“And will it be just you living here?” the realtor asks as he makes some notes. “Or...” I turn to him. “Just me,” I say after a moment. “And believe me, that's just the way I like it.”
― Amy Cross, The Bride of Ashbyrn House

“I’d like a truly open society that will never exist, and I’d like to find someone I could truly love.”
― Bonnie Dee, The Medium

“Occasionally, when one looks into the pit, the pit looks back. Sometimes it winks.”
― K.J. Charles, The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal