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    Kyle Keyes
    “Don't bullshit me, Olan. I know when a girl's getting screwed.”
    ― Kyle Keyes, Quantum Roots
    tags: scifi, scifi-adventure
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Eine Viertelstunde später saß Rjuchin gänzlich einsam vor einer Zärte, leerte dazu ein Glas nach dem andern und war sich bewußt, daß er in seinem Leben nichts mehr ändern, sondern nur noch vergessen konnte.”
    ― Michail Bulgakov
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    David Sedaris
    “But instead I am applying for a job as an elf. Even worse than applying is the very real possibility that I will not be hired, that I couldn't even find work as an elf. That's when you know you're a failure.”
    ― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice
    tags: humorous
    10 likes

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    Roald Dahl
    “We are now about to visit the most marvelous places and see the most wonderful things!”
    ― Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
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    James Clavell
    “three big islands, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu? And thousands of little ones. There’s another island far to the north—some say it’s the mainland—called Hokkaido, but only hairy natives”
    ― James Clavell, Shōgun
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time?”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
    tags: eclipse, jacob-black
    724 likes

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    Nancy Omeara
    “How did I become President?
    I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
    ― Nancy Omeara, The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
    tags: culture, democracy, drama, educational, fiction, fictional-drama, fictional-narratives, historical-fiction, historical-research
    190 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The artillery fire which helped in holding off the enemy advance against the Australian positions appeared to be getting always closer. A radio operator called Vic Grice somehow replaced the antenna on Buick’s radio. That had been shot off, thus rendering the radio in-operational.”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy
    tags: australia, historical, historical-fiction, history, oceanian-fiction, southeast-asia, truth, vietnam, war, war-recount
    191 likes

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    “I feel like the Earth has cracked open and swallowed me into a bottomless abyss.”
    ― March Lions, The Last Sunset
    tags: action, adventure, drama, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, sci-fi, science-fiction, technology, ufo
    158 likes

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    William Kely McClung
    “Ten years old. Seemed perfectly normal, which under the circumstances, according to the doctor who first interviewed him, meant he probably wasn’t. Years later that would be amended. “He has a talent for violence.”
    ― William Kely McClung, Black Fire
    tags: action, black-ops, drama, explosive, murder, sex-trafficking, suspense, thriller
    70 likes

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    Alan Paton
    “No second Johannesburg is needed upon the earth. One is enough.”
    ― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
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    M.L. Stedman
    “Our own star! Like the world's been made just for us! With the sunshine and the ocean. We have each other all to ourselves.”
    ― M.L. Stedman
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    Betty Smith
    “Everything struggles to live.”
    ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “What's so funny?" Bella mumbled.
    "I got food in her hair," I told her, chortling again.
    "I'm not going to forget this, dog," Rosalie hissed.
    "S'not so hard to erase a blond's memory," I countered. "Just blow in her ear."
    Get some new jokes, "Rosalie snapped.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
    tags: blonde-humor
    301 likes

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    Paul Cude
    “Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
    ― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past
    tags: fantasy, fantasy-books, fantasy-books-humour, fantasy-fiction, fantasy-young-adult
    701 likes

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    David Guterson
    “To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective”
    ― David Guterson
    16 likes



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