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#1. If the river brought us here," I ventured tentatively, "then when it reverses course, it'll carry us back.

Vaddey Ratner

#2. I'm famous. Ain't that a bitch?

Thelonious Monk

#3. I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

Whitfield Diffie

#4. The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away.
Why? Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?

Richard Matheson

#5. I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Roy Blount Jr.

#6. Single-minded to the point of recklessness

Ann Brashares

#7. I believe that we exist to fully participate in the creation of our own lives.

Toni Sorenson

#8. She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered upon waking but slithered away from memory as she tried to grasp them. Only the tendrils of discomfort remained.

Kate Morton

#9. Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

Terry Rossio