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“Life wasn't about deserving anything. It was about earning everything.”
― Scott Sigler, The All-Pro

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head - even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you're really like to be.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

“She sucked in air as if the only reason for her to breathe was to expel pain.”
― Patrick E. McLean

“When you introduce things that most readers have never seen before into a piece of fiction, you have to describe them with as much precision and in as much detail as possible. What you can eliminate from fiction is the description of things that most readers have seen.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“At that instant, Eragon's back ruptured in an explosion of agony so intense he experienced it with all five senses: as a deafening waterfall of sound; a metallic taste that coated his tongue; an acrid eye-watering stench in his nostrils, redolent of vinegar; pulsing colors, and above all the feeling that Durza had just laid open his back.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“You're the one who doesn't understand," Lev said. "In America, I have my own car. There's more food than you can eat, all the booze I want, all the cigarettes I can smoke. I have five suits!"

"What's the point in having five suits?" Grigori said in frustration. "It's like having five beds. You can only use one at a time!”
― Ken Follett, Fall of Giants

“It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy.”
― Robert Leckie, Helmet For My Pillow

“If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“She made my favorite breakfast and recruited me to be the cheerleader of her mistake.”
― Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo