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“She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.” — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
“Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wondered if the angels talked to get me to behave or to entice the devil to come out to play.” — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“Mara : I'm too selfish to leave you Noah Shaw : I'm too selfish to let you” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“He starts to hum, a haunting melody. No words ride the music, only the familiar notes of a forgotten song.” — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
“All you have to do is choose the right day, the right weather, and you come upon a hidden place in the… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no… — Chris Howard Copy Share Image
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
“She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her… — Adam Foulds Copy Share Image
“Men do not die on mornings like this: whatever happens then happens in their name, like the lives of obscure saints, who… — Michael Hogan Copy Share Image
“Maybe princes aren’t real,” Sada said. Her eyes were crafty and sad at the same time. “But monsters are.” She opened her… — Mercedes M. Yardley Copy Share Image
“I talked a lot of shit, but truth be told, it was more for my ears than anyone else’s. Madoc was designer.… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“In the bush he taught the knots I use to tie my blanket to my saddle Ds also the way I stand… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Psipsina emerged from inside the tunic, and jumped up on the table in order to curl up inside the cap, which had… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness,… — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“The wind swoops over the tenements on Orchard Street, where some of those starry-eyed dreams have died and yet other dreams are… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“I suppose you think you know what autumn looks like. Even if you live in the Los Angeles dreamed of by September’s… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Fallon continued. “We learned in school that bullies abuse others because they feel bad about themselves. They’re hurting.” She brought up her… — Penelope Douglas Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
