<!-- 
from https://tympanus.net/Tutorials/ModernBlockQuoteStyles/index.html 
Mary Lou in Tutorials
-->

<div class="mb-wrap mb-style-1">
	<div class="mb-thumb"></div>
	<blockquote cite="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257">
		<p>Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.</p>
	</blockquote>
	<div class="mb-attribution">
		<p class="mb-author">Alexandre Dumas</p>
		<cite><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257">The Three Musketeers</a></cite>
	</div>
</div>

<div class="mb-wrap mb-style-2">
	<blockquote cite="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11">
		<p>If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.</p>
	</blockquote>
	<div class="mb-attribution">
		<p class="mb-author"> Lewis Carroll</p>
		<cite><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11">Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</a></cite>
	</div>
</div>

<div class="mb-wrap mb-style-3">
	<blockquote cite="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260">
		<p>It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.</p>
	</blockquote>
	<div class="mb-attribution">
		<p class="mb-author">Charlotte Brontë</p>
		<cite><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260">Jane Eyre</a></cite>
	</div>
</div>

<div class="mb-wrap mb-style-4">
	<div class="mb-thumb"></div>
	<blockquote cite="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/967">
		<p>Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, <span>who sport on the earth in the night season,</span> and melt away with the first beam of the sun which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.</p>
	</blockquote>
	<div class="mb-attribution">
		<p class="mb-author">Charles Dickens</p>
		<cite><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/967">Nicholas Nickleby</a></cite>
	</div>
</div>

<div class="mb-wrap mb-style-5">
	<div class="mb-thumb"></div>
	<blockquote cite="http://books.google.pt/books/about/Dirk_Gently_s_Holistic_Detective_Agency.html?id=35li46gjDx0C&redir_esc=y">
		<p>There is no point in using the word 'impossible' <span> to describe something that has clearly happened.</span></p>
	</blockquote>
	<div class="mb-attribution">
		<p class="mb-author">Douglas Adams</p>
		<cite><a href="http://books.google.pt/books/about/Dirk_Gently_s_Holistic_Detective_Agency.html?id=35li46gjDx0C&redir_esc=y">Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency</a></cite>
	</div>
</div>

<div class="mb-wrap mb-style-6">
	<blockquote cite="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600">
		<p>For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?</p>
	</blockquote>
	<div class="mb-attribution">
		<p class="mb-author">Fyodor Dostoevsky</p>
		<cite><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/600">Notes from the Underground</a></cite>
	</div>
</div>

/*style_common*/
body { position: relative; }

@font-face {
	font-family: 'icons';
	src: url("font/icons.eot");
	src: 
		url("font/icons.eot?#iefix") format('embedded-opentype'), 
		url("font/icons.woff") format('woff'), 
		url("font/icons.ttf") format('truetype'), 
		url("font/icons.svg#icons") format('svg');
	font-weight: normal;
	font-style: normal;
}

/* Let's set and reset some common styles */
.mb-wrap {
	width: 300px;
	margin: 20px auto;
	padding: 20px;
	position: relative;	
}

.mb-wrap p{
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

.mb-wrap blockquote {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	position: relative;
}

.mb-wrap cite {
	font-style: normal;
}


/*===================
style-1
====================*/
.mb-style-1 {
	background: #363738 url(../images/dark_leather.jpg) repeat top left;	
	margin-top: 100px;
	padding-top: 100px;
	width: 400px;
	color: #fff;
	box-shadow: 1px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
	border-top: 10px solid #fff;
}

.mb-style-1 .mb-thumb {
	display: block;
	width: 180px;
	height: 180px;
	border: 10px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
	border-radius: 50%;
	background: url("https://tympanus.net/Tutorials/ModernBlockQuoteStyles/images/Dartagnan-musketeers.jpg") no-repeat center center;
	position: absolute;
	left: 50%;
	top: -90px;
	margin: 0 0 0 -90px;
	box-shadow: 
		inset 1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5),
		0 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
}

.mb-style-1 blockquote:before,
.mb-style-1 blockquote:after {
	font-family: 'icons';
	position: absolute;
	font-size: 70px;
	top: -95px;
	color: #242526;
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
}

.mb-style-1 blockquote:before{
	content: '\275d';
}

.mb-style-1 blockquote:after{
	right: 0px;
	content: '\e800';
}

.mb-style-1 blockquote p {
	font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;
	font-style: italic;
	font-size: 25px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
	box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
	padding: 10px 10px 20px 10px;
	text-align: center;
	margin: 0 0 20px 0;
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
}

.mb-style-1 .mb-attribution {
	text-align: right;
}

.mb-style-1 .mb-author{
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 20px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #1b1c1d;
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
}

.mb-style-1 cite a{
	color: #f0f0f0;
	font-style: italic;
	font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.7)
}

.mb-style-1 cite a:hover{
	text-shadow: 2px 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.9)
}
/*===================
style-2
====================*/

body {
	background: #ddd url(../images/bg_reddish.jpg) repeat top left;
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote{
	padding-top: 150px;
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote:after {
	font-family: 'icons';
	background: rgba(235,150,108,0.8);
	width: 130px;
	height: 130px;
	border-radius: 50%;
	content: '\275e'; 
	position: absolute;
	font-size: 70px;
	line-height: 130px;
	text-align: center;
	top: 0px;
	left: 50%;
	margin-left: -65px;
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote:before{
	content: '';
	width: 500px;
	height: 500px;
	border-radius: 50%;
	border-left: 5px solid rgba(235,150,108,0.1);
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	left: -50px;
	z-index: -1;
}

.mb-style-2 blockquote p {
	font-family: Baskerville, Georgia, serif;
	font-size: 28px;
	font-style: italic;
	background: rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
	display: inline;
	color: rgba(235,150,108,0.8);
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.5);
	line-height: 46px;
	box-shadow: 0 -6px 0 rgba(235,150,108,0.2);
}

.mb-style-2 .mb-attribution {
	text-align: right;
}

.mb-style-2 .mb-author{
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-size: 18px;
	padding-top: 10px;
	font-weight: bold;
	color: #d48158;
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
}

.mb-style-2 cite a{
	color: #d7aa94;
	font-style: italic;
}

.mb-style-2 cite a:hover{
	color: #d48158;
}

/*===================
style-3
====================*/
.mb-style-3 {
	width: 500px;
}

.mb-style-3 blockquote{
	background: #fff;
	padding: 30px;
	border-radius: 5px;
	box-shadow: 
		inset 0 2px 0 rgba(188, 147, 200, 0.7), 
		-5px -4px 25px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
}

.mb-style-3 blockquote:after, 
.mb-style-3 blockquote:before  {
	top: 100%;
	border: solid transparent;
	content: " ";
	height: 0;
	width: 0;
	position: absolute;
	pointer-events: none;
}

.mb-style-3 blockquote:after  {
	border-top-color: #ffffff;
	border-width: 10px;
	left: 65%;
	margin-left: -10px;
}

.mb-style-3 blockquote:before {
	border-top-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.01);
	border-width: 11px;
	left: 65%;
	margin-left: -11px;
}

.mb-style-3 blockquote p {
	font-family: 'Alegreya', serif;
	font-size: 24px;
	color: #b4b4b4;
	font-weight: 400;
	line-height: 40px;
	font-style: italic;
	text-indent: 100px;
	position: relative;
}

.mb-style-3 blockquote p:before{
	content: '\201C';
	font-family: serif;
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 700;
	position: absolute;
	font-size: 175px;
	top: 0px;
	left: -105px;
	color: rgba(188, 147, 200, 1);
	text-shadow: 7px 14px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
}

.mb-style-3 .mb-attribution {
	text-align: right;
	padding: 20px 100px 20px 20px;
	position: relative;
}

.mb-style-3 .mb-thumb {
	display: block;
	width: 70px;
	height: 70px;
	border: 5px solid #fff;
	border-radius: 50%;
	background: url(../images/bronte.jpg) no-repeat center center;
	position: absolute;
	right: 10px;
	bottom: 5px;
	box-shadow: 
		inset 1px 1px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.5),
		0 2px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
}

.mb-style-3 .mb-author{
	font-family: 'Alegreya SC', serif;
	font-weight: 700;
	font-size: 18px;
	color: rgba(188, 147, 200, 1);
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
}

.mb-style-3 cite a{
	font-family: 'Alegreya', serif;
	font-weight: 700;
	font-style: italic;
	color: #fff;
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
}

.mb-style-3 cite a:hover{
	color: rgba(188, 147, 200, 1);
	text-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.7);
}
/*===================
style-4
====================*/
.mb-style-4 {
	width: 600px;
	padding: 20px 240px 50px 20px;
	background: #444 url(https://tympanus.net/Tutorials/ModernBlockQuoteStyles/images/dickens.jpg) no-repeat 140% 25%;
	overflow: hidden;
	box-shadow: inset 0 0 10px rgba(0,0,0,0.6);
}

.mb-style-4 blockquote p {
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.95);
	font-size: 21px;
	line-height: 26px;
	text-align: right;
	color: #999;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-weight: bold;
}

.mb-style-4 blockquote p span {
	font-weight: 700;
	color: #fcf779;
	font-size: 58px;
	line-height: 58px;
	display: block;
	padding: 10px;
	text-shadow: 7px 7px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
	-webkit-transform: rotate(-7deg) translateY(10px);
	-moz-transform: rotate(-7deg) translateY(10px);
	-o-transform: rotate(-7deg) translateY(10px);
	-ms-transform: rotate(-7deg) translateY(10px);
	transform: rotate(-7deg) translateY(10px);
}
.mb-style-4 blockquote p span:before {
	font-family: 'icons';
	content: '\275d'; 
	font-weight: normal;
	opacity: 0.1;
	font-size: 136px;
	position: absolute;
	color: #fff;
	top: -50px;
	left: -25px;
	-webkit-transform: rotate(45deg);
	-moz-transform: rotate(45deg);
	-o-transform: rotate(45deg);
	-ms-transform: rotate(45deg);
	transform: rotate(45deg);
}

.mb-style-4 .mb-attribution {
	text-align: right;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-weight: bold;
	background: #222;
	position: absolute;
	width: 100%;
	left: 0px;
	bottom: 0px;
	text-align: center;
	padding: 30px;
	-webkit-transform: rotate(-40deg) translate(175px, 110px);
	-moz-transform: rotate(-40deg) translate(175px, 110px);
	-o-transform: rotate(-40deg) translate(175px, 110px);
	-ms-transform: rotate(-40deg) translate(175px, 110px);
	transform: rotate(-40deg) translate(175px, 110px);
	-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
}

.mb-style-4 .mb-author:before {
	content: '\2014';
	padding-right: 4px;
}

.mb-style-4 .mb-attribution cite a{
	color: #777;
}

.mb-style-4 .mb-attribution cite a:hover{
	color: #fcf779;
}
/*===================
style-5
====================*/
.mb-style-5 {
	width: 390px;
}

.mb-style-5 blockquote {
	text-align: center;
	background: #333;
	width: 350px;
	height: 350px;
	padding: 60px;
	border-radius: 50%;
	box-shadow: 
		inset 0 0 0 10px #333, 
		inset 0 0 0 12px rgba(255,255,255,0.6), 
		80px 0 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.3),
		-80px 0 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.3),
		50px 0 0 rgba(60,185,145,0.2),
		-50px 0 0 rgba(185,60,60,0.2);
}


.mb-style-5 blockquote p {
	color: #fff;
	font-size: 20px;
	font-weight: 400;
	padding-top: 25px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	text-shadow: 0 0 1px #fff, 0 1px 1px #000;
	font-family: 'Annie Use Your Telescope', cursive;
}

.mb-style-5 blockquote p span {
	display: block;
	position: relative;
	padding-top: 40px;
	margin-top: 40px;
	border-top: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.3);
}

.mb-style-5 blockquote p span:before {
	position: absolute;
	width: 50px;
	height: 50px;
	background: #ddd;
	content: "\275d";
	font-size: 40px;
	color: #333;
	top: 0px;
	left: 50%;
	margin: -25px 0 0 -25px;
	border-radius: 50%;
}

.mb-style-5 .mb-attribution {
	text-align: center;
	font-family: 'Annie Use Your Telescope', cursive;
	padding: 20px;
	font-size: 16px;
}
.mb-style-5 cite a:hover{
	color: #000;
}
/*===================
style-6
====================*/
.mb-style-6 {
	width: 350px;
	height: 400px;
	background: #fff;
	border-radius: 4px;
}

/* Shadow style from Nicolas Gallagher: http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-drop-shadows-without-images/demo/ */
.mb-style-6:before, .mb-style-6:after {
	content: "";
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -2;
    -moz-transform: rotate(-3deg);
	-webkit-transform: rotate(-3deg);
	-o-transform: rotate(-3deg);
	-ms-transform: rotate(-3deg);
	transform: rotate(-3deg);
    bottom: 15px;
    box-shadow: 0 15px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);
    height: 20%;
    left: 10px;
    max-height: 100px;
    max-width: 300px;
    width: 50%;
}
.mb-style-6:after {
    -moz-transform: rotate(3deg);
	-webkit-transform: rotate(3deg);
	-o-transform: rotate(3deg);
	-ms-transform: rotate(3deg);
	transform: rotate(3deg);
    left: auto;
    right: 10px;
}

.mb-style-6 blockquote{
	background: #333;
	height: 75%;
	padding: 30px;
	text-align: center;
}

.mb-style-6 blockquote:before{
	color: rgba(255,255,255,0.2);
	position: absolute;
	content: '\0022';
	font-size: 150px;
	line-height: 130px;
	font-style: italic;
	top: 0px;
	right: 20px;
	font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;
}

.mb-style-6 blockquote p {
	color: #fff;
	font-family: 'Abril Fatface', sans-serif;
	font-size: 24px;
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #000;
}
.mb-style-6 .mb-attribution {
	padding: 20px;
}

.mb-style-6 .mb-author {
	font-size: 24px;
	font-family: 'Dr Sugiyama', cursive;
	-moz-transform: rotate(-4deg);
	color: #070d5f;
}
.mb-style-6 cite a{
	color: #999;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	letter-spacing: 3px;
	font-size: 12px;
}
.mb-style-6 cite a:hover{
	color: #000;
}






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