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“You see, the universe still had accounts to settle. And Susie and I were way overdrawn.”
― J.K. Franko, Eye for Eye Trilogy: Boxset 1-3

“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“It’s lonely,�� she replied. “But a good kind of lonely. The kind that makes you stronger. I lived a solitary life here for years. That is how I’ve emerged as I am now. All great faiths are born in the desert.”
― J.S. Latshaw, A Gallery of Mothers

“In fact I think the Gods love people like Tristan who sway effortlessly before the winds of fate and spring back with a smile, looking on life always with blithe optimism.”
― James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful

“Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you. ”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, V1

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“He could describe walking towards the Taj Mahal �� ho-hum, thinks the reader, immediately in the realm of the tacky postcard �� and still give you a wholly fresh impression of the exact scale and actual presence of that white tomb; delicate but powerful, compact and yet boundlessly imposing. Epic grace. With those two words he encapsulated it, and you knew exactly what he meant.”
― Iain Banks, The Crow Road

“Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe ?”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

“Are you going to babysit me every day or just until I learn my way around?"
"What do you think?"
"Here's to a long and happy friendship, Officer Samos."
"Likewise, my lady."
"Don't call me that."
"Whatever you say, my lady.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I think I'll move to Australia.”
― Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

“All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

“Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

“From the side window smoke could be seen rising from the Westing house, but Sydelle Pulaski did not notice.”
― Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game