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  • #1
    William Kely McClung
    “He’d seen combat and had been through two divorces, hadn’t thought of himself as a fearful man. But that was ten minutes ago.”
    William Kely McClung, LOOP

  • #2
    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
     ”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #3
    Susan  Rowland
    “Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
    Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

  • #4
    Cricket Rohman
    “Jerking her blindfold back into place, he yelled, “Giddy-up!”                                      “They only say that in cartoons, you moron.”
    Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

  • #5
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

  • #6
    Terry Goodkind
    “Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
    Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

  • #7
    Michael Ondaatje
    “She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.”
    Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

  • #8
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked. That stillness at the back of his neck. His prosperous-looking belly…sagged like a load suspended from his loins.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #9
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

  • #10
    Bill Bryson
    “It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in a thousand luminous hues. It is a truly astounding sight when every tree in a landscape becomes individual, when each winding back highway and plump hillside is suddenly and infinitely splashed with every sharp shade that nature can bestow - flaming scarlet, lustrous gold, throbbing vermilion, fiery orange.”
    Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away

  • #11
    Mark   Ellis
    “Murder calls were never welcome, but this one had a small silver lining.it was going to get Merlin out of a sticky predicament.”
    Mark Ellis, Death of an Officer

  • #12
    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

  • #15
    Max Nowaz
    “You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #16
    J. Rose Black
    “Every day is a battle. Still. She doesn’t need this…this mess. The nightmares. She doesn’t deserve what I’d put her through. And she probably wouldn’t stick around anyway. Who would?”
    J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath

  • #17
    Behcet Kaya
    “In contrast, Anderson was trying hard not to show his brimful-teary eyes. He felt his face heating. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his handkerchief and blew his nose. At the same time, anger began to grow in the pit of his stomach.”
    Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

  • #18
    Susanna Clarke
    “you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell

  • #19
    Agatha Christie
    “There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

  • #20
    Christopher Moore
    “People, generally, suck.”
    Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

  • #21
    Malcolm X
    “Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. I”
    Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • #22
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #23
    Sylvia Plath
    “I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



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