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  • #1
    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “The telegram was sealed – an old-fashioned touch, I thought, but then I’d never had a telegram before. I took my time opening it. I said nothing.”
    Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

  • #2
    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Only someone watching him closely like Celena would have noticed his intense preoccupation, and that something in a split second had happened to him.  She wondered where he had gone when he should have been listening to the sermon, where his soul had gone went it had left his body.”
    Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

  • #3
    Merlin Franco
    “Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #4
    A.R. Merrydew
    “Time and space are incalculable, there measure is infinite. The formulas that explicate their workings, have all but been explained away. But there is one thing that remains, and always will.
    ‘The occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.’
    Chance.”
    A.R. Merrydew, Inara

  • #5
    “Do you want to live, Sander?”
    Edward Williams

  • #6
    Robert         Reid
    “To rule all mankind requires not just power, but men called to do the bidding of that power. Until the rise of the Dewars, no one man could raise the resources necessary. Today, the Dewar can call on human forces that no one else can gather. With the power of othium, the Dewar and Oien will create again the horrors of the Second Age.”
    Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

  • #7
    Therisa Peimer
    “Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #8
    Mark Bowden
    “Opposition to the war was becoming fashionable. Popular figures—intellectuals, athletes, musicians—stepped up to announce their opposition”
    Mark Bowden, Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

  • #9
    Dalton Trumbo
    “Hmmmm. But what do the dead say? Did”
    Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

  • #10
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “In the end he became as fragmentary as the poems of Sappho he never succeeded in restoring, and finally one morning he looked up into the face of the woman who’d been the greatest love of his life and failed to recognize her. And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #11
    James Redfield
    “Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life—fears”
    James Redfield, The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

  • #12
    Bill Watterson
    “Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.”
    Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

  • #13
    Dashiell Hammett
    “Plans are all right sometimes," I said. "And sometimes just stirring things up is all right--if you're tough enough to survive, and keep your eyes open so you'll see what you want when it comes to the top.”
    Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest
    tags: plans



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