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  • #1
    “The devil wins only through lies and deception.”
    Kathryn Krick

  • #2
    Steven Decker
    “She’d always loved the mountains, but as she turned back to face the spectacular seascape in the distance, she nearly lost her breath at the diversity of beauty to be found on this ancient, tiny island. She remembered a thought she’d had, just briefly, during her first day ever walking in Ireland, when they were going down through the forest on the way from Glenmalure to Glendalough. I could live my life doing this, she’d thought. And she’d done that, for a while.”
    Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

  • #3
    K.  Ritz
    “This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it.”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #4
    Sara Pascoe
    “But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
    Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #5
    “It doesn’t matter how smart you are or what you know; if you learn to put those two things together, to let your pain drive your talent, you can become the best at anything you do in life.”
    Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

  • #6
    “Cindy Divine and her parents paused by their boat to take in the natural beauty. Lake Barkley could have been a top-paid model for a glossy postcard company that morning. It lay between little hills all dressed up in new green, and its mirror-like water reflected a cloudless sky everywhere except along the shoreline where the hills were upside down. Clusters of blossoms, dogwood and redbud, were scattered here and there on the hillsides, and a brightening red was coloring the sky along the eastern hilltops.”
    Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

  • #7
    James Joyce
    “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #8
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

  • #9
    Clement Clarke Moore
    “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
    Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas

  • #10
    Rohinton Mistry
    “In those days," continued Ishvar, "it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain."

    "And later?"

    "Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.”
    Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

  • #11
    Jon Scieszka
    “And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.”
    Jon Scieszka, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales



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