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“He had created a son—not in a conventional manner, nor one a DNA test would confirm, but certainly in the most important sense. He wondered where the boy was now and what he was doing, the product of biological alchemy and the man’s greatest and most secret success.”

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Author:Dee A. Replogle, Jr.

“Clearly it is simplest never to marry at all,’ I said, trying to keep my voice light. These stories, ridiculous fairy tales though they were, had tainted the evening. Like Vivian, I preferred to think of The Sleeping Princess as a magical spectacle of fairy godmothers and characters from folklore. But then we had both learned the hard way about heartbreak and loss.”

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Book:The Sleeping Beauties

Source: The Sleeping Beauties

“We financed politicians because they were friendly to our cause and would facilitate our projects.”

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Book:The Thief and the Patriot

Source: The Thief and the Patriot

“A minimum of two years in prison should be a prerequisite for going into politics.”

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Book:The Thief and the Patriot

Source: The Thief and the Patriot

“The Kalends are for men with credit, Decimius.’ Julius wiped a speck of dust from his pristine tunic. ‘My patron is a man of numbers, not mercy. The ledger must balance. If I return light, he becomes… difficult. And I have a habit of passing that difficulty on.”

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Book:A Slave's Vengeance

Source: A Slave's Vengeance

“Books are keys that open many doors.”

“The women of Republican times are silent. Rarely calling for comment in the history books, they are named on tombstones, flit in arrogant beauty through poetry, or appear even as monsters of iniquity in a court of law. Yet they themselves do not speak and they have left no literature of any sort of their own. In this book, however, Roman women live and love and hate anything but silently. (author's note To the Reader in 'A Roman Death'.)”

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Author:Joan O'Hagan

“She sometimes wondered where her youth had vanished to. Inside she didn't feel like the aged lady that looked back at her from the cracked mirror.”

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Author:Mary Kendall

“What a place, George thought. Greasy, grim and ripe for murder.”

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Book:Lord of the Atlas

Source: Lord of the Atlas

“We can always bribe them, that’s what we do in this country.”

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Book:The Thief and the Patriot

Source: The Thief and the Patriot