Quote Of The Week - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The height of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Quote Of The Week - Michelle Buckley

Writing is the indelible fingerprint of my soul on paper. - Michelle Buckley

Quote Of The Week George Bernard Shaw

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw

Quote Of The Week Jonathan Swift

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift

Quote Of The Week Jane Austen

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen

Quote Of The Week Mitch Albom

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
Mitch Albom

Quote Of The Week Bram Stoker

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
Bram Stoker

Quote Of The Week William Strunk, Jr

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
William Strunk, Jr.

Quote Of The Week Franklin Pierce Adams

You do not know what you can miss before you try.
Franklin Pierce Adams

Quote Of The Week Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams

Quote Of The Week Chinua Achebe

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe

Tempting Thursday Excerpts Over The Edge

"Brant Evans has Cedar Pines under his very heavy policeman's thumb. His wife Janna controls the town's social and political levers with her money. The two of them work hard to ruin the lives of anyone they don't like, or anyone who crosses them. Maggie Allen is caught up in their web of hate. Brant has special plans for Maggie, plans that include arrest, imprisonment, and ruin." -Wanda Keesey, Reviewer

Excerpt

Maggie Allen stood behind the counter eyeing the customers beginning to fill the booths. She grabbed her order pad and a pencil. A familiar couple seated themselves in her station. Inwardly, she seethed with anger as she watched them, but outwardly, she was bright and cheerful. She hated having to put on a false front, but knew it was a requisite of the job to treat all of her customers with friendliness, even those she couldn't stomach. 

"Hi, Brant. Janna," she said in the cheeriest voice she could muster. She flipped the order pad to a clean page. "What can I get you two?" 

"Coffee. Hon?" The man nodded toward the beautiful petite blond at his side. 

"The same." She smiled at Maggie. "Did you hear about our new house?" 

Maggie looked into her sparkling baby blue eyes. "Yes, I hear it's quite a showplace." She forced a tight smile. She'd give anything to be called away from their table instead of enduring their phony attempts at friendliness. They were up to something. That she was sure of. 

Quote Of The Week William Strunk, Jr.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr.

Quote Of The Week Goodman Ace

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.
Goodman Ace

Tempting Thursday Excerpts Silent Dreams

Blaine Kirsten unwittingly gets pulled into a prostitution ring when her best friend, Kami Matthews, introduces her to Josh Barnes. When Blaine refuses to become a part of his operation, she faces brutal consequences.

Detectives Jane Adams and Casey Jorgan are assigned to the case. Almost immediately, Casey finds herself unable to separate her personal emotions from this case, which jeopardizes her career.

 Excerpt

Kami Matthews gazed out of the grimy window watching the day slowly fade into dusk. She turned her blonde head and glanced at the clock on the stained wall. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "I didn't realize it was so late! I've got to get out of here." She gave her friend a quick hug. "Don't worry," she said brightly. "Everything will work out. You'll see. Be thankful that nothing worse happened."

"I guess so," Blaine Kirsten mumbled, staring down at her faded jeans. "I wish you could stay a little longer, though." She raised her eyes to Kami's "Please?" she pleaded. "I ... I don't want to be alone. I'm scared, Kami. Please stay for just another hour." She twisted her hands together. 

Quote Of The Week Henry David Thoreau

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Henry David Thoreau

Quote Of The Week Benjamin Franklin

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote Of The Week Joseph Addison

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison

Quote Of The Week Ernest Hemingway

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

Quote Of The Week Norman Mailer

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Norman Mailer