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  • #1
    “He sounds like a politician running for office.”
    March Lions, The Last Sunset

  • #2
    Susan  Rowland
    “We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #3
    Yvonne Korshak
    “The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,” he murmured. Thinking of her out there on the battlefield. In his tent. What more could a woman want? Quite a lot, actually.”
    Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

  • #4
    William Kely McClung
    “The same First Amendment that gave people the right for thoughtful discourse with radically differing views, gave people the right to say all the stupid shit they wanted, and the Second, the means if not the guidance, to protect the first and a reason to pay attention.”
    William Kely McClung, LOOP

  • #5
    E.L. Konigsburg
    “If you really want to be a witch, nothing you have to do will seem like too much. If you don't really want to be a witch, everything will seem like too much.”
    E.L. Konigsburg

  • #6
    Ovid
    “Is it fitting then, that I go out wearing robes dipped in costly purple while you, my lord, are in battle by the walls of Troy?
    Should I arrange my hair while a great helmet weighs down his head? Should I put on new garments while he is burdened with heavy arms?”
    Ovid, Heroides

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #8
    N.H. Kleinbaum
    “We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for”
    Nancy H. Kleinbaum

  • #9
    Thomas  Harris
    “In making friends she was ever wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it.”
    Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

  • #10
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    “Some of the books that provided the richest fare were hidden under unrevealing names, like a rare soul behind a drab face”
    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Sojourner



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