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“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.”
― Clark Zlotchew

“My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“I'm not perfect, either. In the end, it's only God's judgement that matters, and I've learned enough to know that no one can presume to know the will of God.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“It stood calm against the suburban storm raging around it. The thunder screamed across the sky; it slapped the clouds into a heated turmoil that flew towards the south.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the moonlight like a black jewel. Ed saw the tiny specks of light around the edges of the bay where he knew ships must be docked, and at different points within the bay where vessels would be anchored. The lights were pale and sickly yellow when compared with the bright blue-white sparkle of the stars overhead, but the stars glinted hard as diamonds, cold as ice. Pg. 26.”
― Clark Zlotchew, Once upon a Decade: Tales of the Fifties

“God, I loved him. I could insist I was okay with just being friends, that I'd find someone else and get over him, but I was fooling myself. There was no getting past this. I loved him, and fifty years from now we could be married to other people, never exchanged so much as a kiss, and I'd still looking into his eyes and know he was the one. He'd always be the one.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Spell Bound

“He looked at me. " I do know how to deal with demons, Savannah."
"I know. Sorry."
"So I get a hug?"
"No, but I won't smack you, and we'll call it even.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Spell Bound

“Why does this feel so right?" I murmured past the tightness in my throat.
"Why do you keep fighting this feeling?"
"Because I'm not supposed to want this."
His smile returned, slowly curving his lips up. "But you do anyway.”
― Melissa Darnell

“God, Jaden! You are going to screw yourself into a corner if you don't talk to him. This is like, a crossroads. You're always going to look back and wonder if things could've been different, and this love story is going to turn into a tragedy. Your tragedy. You two deserve a chance to be happy together, and the only thing keeping you apart right now is YOU.”
― Katie Klein, Cross My Heart

“[Quoting Miss Harty:]

"People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they’re telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people ‘Gucci carpetbaggers.”
― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“Keegan rested his forearm on the wheel. “If the spell is fading, you could’ve grown old with this woman. She never had to know you were the Quartermaster on the Sea Dog when it sank in 1795.â€�

“All true.â€� Colton glanced over his shoulder toward the bow. “But every man she’s ever known has lied to her. I didn’t want to be another one.”
― Lisa Kessler, Magnolia Mystic

“When you don't have much, you hold on to what matters. You hold on with both hands.”
― Suzanne Young, All in Pieces

“Savannah was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms. It wanted nothing so much as to be left alone.”
― John Berendt

“He finally had a reason to live, just in time to die.”
― Lisa Kessler, Magnolia Mystic

“No, I don't have a boyfriend. I stabbed the last one.”
― Suzanne Young, All in Pieces

“She rocked her hips into him and gasped. “Do you have a sleeping cabin on this boat?â€�
His teeth brushed her ear. “Yes.�
“Do you have protection?�
Her question didn’t register through the haze of his hunger for her.
“Cannons, a cutlass, and a few pistols.�
She chuckled and kissed him again.
“How about condoms?”
― Lisa Kessler, Magnolia Mystic

“If you could see your whole life laid out before you, there’d be no reason to live it, right?”
― Lisa Kessler, Magnolia Mystic

“..., imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling, insurrection and slavery, just to name a few of the many instances of tragedy. What dark seed would take root in such a disturbed and twisted soil?”
― James Caskey, Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City

“I began to doubt that I would ever know the truth of what transpired, or who those people really were. But all that changed one rainy August afternoon, when I was surprised by a dead man who had answers.”
― James Caskey, Haunted Savannah: America's Most Spectral City

“I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - seductive and lazy, busy and slow, modern and ancient. Savannah was a contradiction and a complicated melody that could only be known by walking through it, absorbing its every sensual detail.”
― Patti Callahan, Surviving Savannah

“I came to Savannah to see where it all began ... where I began. But right now, I swear to God I flew to the other side of the pond just to see Theo in a dirty white T-shirt and faded blue jeans with holes in the knees, a red bandana wrapped around his head, and the most vulnerable look in his blue eyes.”
― Jewel E. Ann, Scarlet Stone

“It’s Savannah, the land of dishing-the-dirt and all things fried.”
― Duffy Brown, Lethal in Old Lace

“Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Poseidon's Wake

“Los buenos profesores no tiene precio. Te inspiran, te entretienen y acabas aprendiendo más de lo que esperabas...”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Aprendí algo acerca de mí misma: que después de una experiencia tan desagradable, podía sobrevivir y seguir adelante...”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Cuando sus labios sellaron los míos, supe que podría vivir hasta cumplir los cien años y visitar todos los países del mundo, pero que nada se podría comparar con ese preciso instante, cuando, por primera vez, besé a la chica de mis sueños y supe que mi amor por ella nunca tendría fin,,,”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Se trataba de pequeñas imperfecciones que la hacían perfecta ante mis ojos...”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“In Old Savannah by Stewart Stafford

Quaking earth unleashed,
An immigrant stands proud in the mêlée,
Takes up the standard of his adopted country,
And joins the charge.

Blind in the cannon smoke,
Grapeshot ricochets past,
Then the patriot holds his gut,
And falls bleeding.

His wife awakes,
To see his apparition at the foot of their bed,
Morose and fading fast,
Tears hang like ever-present Spanish moss on live oak.

The immigrant stands proudly once more,
Motionless and eternal on the plinth,
A child with his father at the base points up at him,
With future glory in his eyes.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“There is no ending to our story where I don’t sacrifice myself to protect you, Savannah. You are my wife. My vows weren’t goddamn throwawayâ€�”
― Serena Akeroyd, Filthy King