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    William Kely McClung
    “She circled and rolled the pan, making sure to seal and burn the ragged edges. Pleased to discover the smell of his burning flesh wasn’t that much different than the bacon.”
    William Kely McClung, LOOP

  • #2
    Michael G. Kramer
    “A French lieutenant was asked by the commander of the French forces, “Jean, it seems to me that many people are only saying the things they think that I want to hear. Accordingly, what I am getting is not information, it is fucking bullshit!”
    Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

  • #3
    Sara Pascoe
    “Love is described like GOD.”
    Sara Pascoe

  • #4
    “Find people who are fighting the same illness that you are.”
    Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

  • #5
    J.K. Franko
    “No man, no matter how smart or strong, can compete with a motivated woman.”
    J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

  • #6
    Steven Decker
    “My people believe in balance,” he said. “We believe that all living things—plants, animals, people—have an intelligent spirit, and that they all make important contributions to the balance of the world.”
    Steven Decker, Projector for Sale

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #8
    Sun Tzu
    “Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.”
    Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  • #9
    Sophocles
    “It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.”
    Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

  • #10
    Cecelia Ahern
    “.. then when the hurt goes, anger takes its place; when the anger runs out of system, loneliness steps in to take over. it's a never ending circle of emotions; every lost emotion being replaced by another.”
    Cecelia Ahern, A Place Called Here

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: pity

  • #12
    Leo Tolstoy
    “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #13
    Author Harold Phifer
    “Thanksgiving is no time for amateur hour in the kitchen, but we were subjected to this Gong Show on a yearly basis. Aunt Kathy went knee deep in her preparations where others would have surrendered.”
    Harold Phifer, Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

  • #14
    “The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
    KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

  • #15
    Max Nowaz
    “I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
    Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

  • #16
    Irving Stone
    “He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.”
    Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?”
    Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  • #18
    Anne Rice
    “In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”
    Anne Rice

  • #19
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe



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