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  • #1
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “Are you a student of Shakespeare?"
    "He's been dead a long time, so not precisely, but who isn't?" she said.”
    Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley

  • #2
    Therisa Peimer
    “She's just one of the plethora of women you rotate through your bed." Lily looked scared out of her mind as the queen changed direction and stalked her. "I will not allow you to besmirch the Esca name with your filthy plot to steal the prince.”
    Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

  • #3
    Ami Loper
    “Anything less than true companionship with God leaves us feeling on the fringes, close but not close enough.”
    Ami Loper, Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God

  • #4
    A.R. Merrydew
    “So, you know that group up there in the Planetarium then?’ The pistol continued. ‘Hey they say it’s a small world.’
         ‘Are they alright?’ asked Semilla darting forward.
         ‘Yeah, they’re all fine, apart from the President he’s rather dead actually, oh and one of the lampposts I’m afraid he copped it too.’
         Baz’s beacon flickered with emotion. ‘Which one?’ he asked.
         ‘There was only one President as far as I know,’ said the pistol indifferently.”
    A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

  • #5
    Sara Pascoe
    “On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
    Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

  • #6
    Merlin Franco
    “. . . There are many type of humans. Look here.” She steeples her hands and puts her chin on top of it. “On top is white man. White man culture, very good.” She slides her chin down to her wrist. “Second comes Yellow man culture. Yellow also good.” She lifts her head and serves me a pitiful glance. “Sorry to tell you, Kumar. Other species comes only below.”
    Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

  • #7
    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “Bringing her eyes down again, Catherine found herself gawking at Jake’s perfectly formed, muscular chest and stomach. She felt her cheeks flush when she he noticed that his towel was still parted, showing off a very lean, muscular leg.”
    Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

  • #8
    Toni Morrison
    “The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless media; whether it is the proud but calcified language of the academy or the commodity driven language of science; whether it is the malign language of law-without-ethics, or language designed for the estrangement of minorities, hiding its racist plunder in its literary cheek - it must be rejected, altered and exposed. It is the language that drinks blood, laps vulnerabilities, tucks its fascist boots under crinolines of respectability and patriotism as it moves relentlessly toward the bottom line and the bottomed-out mind. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.
    - Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture, 1993”
    Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

  • #9
    David Foster Wallace
    “I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”
    David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair
    tags: alone

  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “وضع الله أمامنا سلّمًا علينا أن نتسلقه درجةً إثر درجة
    لديك قدمان فلِمَ التظاهر بالعرج ؟”
    جلال الدين الرومي, مختارات من قصائد مولانا جلال الدين الرومي وغزلياته

  • #11
    Allen Ginsberg
    “You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.”
    Louisa May Alcott



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