“He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.”

— Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Source: The Two Princesses of Bamarre

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American writer 1947

Kresley Cole American writer

“Danilo step back, Danilo step back, DANILO STEP BAAAACK!”

Flavio Tranquillo (1962) Italian journalist and writer

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“He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

“At the beginning of the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, adviser James Carville was stunned at the power the bond market had over the government. If he came back, Carville said: I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a.400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

James Carville (1944) political writer, consultant and United States Marine

Wall Street Journal (February 25, 1993, p. A1)

“[George W. ] Bush explained that he wasn't willing to take the steps outlined in the Kyoto accords - steps that both the scientific world and the international political community had agreed, with a stunning degree of unanimity, were necessary for the future viability of the earth - because he wasn't willing to jeopardize the rate of growth of the American economy. In what sense is this a rational position?”

Linda McQuaig (1951) journalist and author

All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism (2001)

“Laughable rumors. I’m not stepping back or stepping down. You could say I’m stepping up.”

Hu Shuli (1953) Chinese journalist

On the rumors of her stepping down as head of Caixin Media in "AP Interview: Chinese editor Hu Shuli steps aside, not down" in Associated Press (30 January 2018) https://apnews.com/article/china-censorship-business-international-news-asia-pacific-d1f0e45181c64cd0b1a978842a81affa

“For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

Source: A Countess Below Stairs