Rusty Stanfill

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“You’re a magician or some kind of weird, witchy woman. I don’t know how you do it. You never lose,” he said one night, exasperated after I pummeled him game after game. “You’re like Wonder Woman or some backgammon superhero. Hey, I’ve got it—you’re Backgammon Girl.”
Samantha Hart, Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell

Behcet Kaya
“911. What is your emergency?”
“Dead body.”
“You’ll have to speak up. I can’t hear you.”
“There’s a dead body in the woods!”
“Where are you located?”
“I’m on one of the trails off Summit Road in Wild Oaks Mountain Park. I’m near the summit.”
“Can you be more specific?”
“No, I can’t! Just get someone here!”
Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

Erik Larson
“He became one of the few voices in U.S. government to warn of the true ambitions of Hitler”
Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

N.H. Kleinbaum
“You can't expect everybody to think of you all the time. Nobody knows you. And you never talk to anyone!”
N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

Leif Enger
“At first I thought common nouns were hardest hit, coffee and doorway and so on, but it soon became clear that the missing were mostly adjectives.”
Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

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Jerilyn...
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Sydney ...
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Magan C...
432 books | 4 friends

Dave Wo...
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