“or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter”

“a push up or two . . . or twenty.”

“To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.”

“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.”

“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.”

“I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon”

“Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived. -Dracula in Love by Karen Essex”