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    Alex Michaelides
    “We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.”
    ― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient
    tags: crazy, psychology
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    Tanya Thompson
    “As long as I held the angel mask firmly over my demonic smile, no one doubted my honesty. I”
    ― Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade
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    Teresa Driscoll
    “Bulldozers”
    ― Teresa Driscoll, The Promise
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    Amy Harmon
    “Time doesn't stop or give warning. It simply ticks along, marking time, ignoring humanity.”
    ― Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
    tags: time
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    Donna Tartt
    “Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
    ― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
    tags: francis-abernathy, the-secret-history
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    Olivia Hawker
    “Music eases every pain we don’t know”
    ― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night
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    Eoin Dempsey
    “It’s time to move on. Everyone has a past. That’s what we are, but it’s our future that counts more, what we aspire to be. That’s all we can control.”
    ― Eoin Dempsey, The Bogside Boys
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    William Goldman
    “You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something!”
    ― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Ah, professor, if only you had discovered a way of rejuvenating hair!” Chapter 2”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog
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    James Patterson
    “Flying monkeys?" the Gasman called out a guess. "Like in the Wizard of Oz?"
    It dawned on me then. "No," I said tersely "Worse. Flying Erasers.”
    ― James Patterson, School's Out—Forever
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    Luanne G. Smith
    “The heart had a tendency to harden off after being forced to survive inside a life two sizes too small, deprived of the oxygen of dreams.”
    ― Luanne G. Smith, The Vine Witch
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    Harvey Havel
    “She tossed him a small mirror so that he could see the results, and what he saw horrified him.  The boiling concoction left a deep trail of burnt skin that stretched from the crown of his head all the way to his chin – almost like an artificial sluice that burned his flesh to form a large rivulet that ran down the center of his face.”
    ― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
    tags: collection, fantasy, fun, imaginative, scary, sci-fi, short-stories, slasher, unique, varied
    57 likes

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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow
    tags: action-novel, adventure-story, crime, detective-novel, historical-crime-story, intrigue, murder-mystery-novel, mystery-thriller, private-investigator, thriller-novel
    402 likes

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    John Bennardo
    “I once bought my producer a case of Mountain Dew, his favorite soda, as a thank you for all he'd done for me. He was really surprised - his favorite drink is actually 7UP. But he complimented me for getting the color of the can right.”
    ― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake
    tags: biting-satire, celebrities, fiction, honest, humorous, literature, modern-fiction, satire, satirical, satirical-fiction
    91 likes

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    Carolyn Cutler Hughes
    “When we see a mountain too hard to climb, God helps us climb it but in His own time.”
    ― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye
    tags: beautiful, cute-illustrations, find-god, helpful, hope, illustrations, light, prayer, self-awareness, self-love
    50 likes

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    Michael G. Kramer
    “The Ganeva conference on Indochina agreements stated that the south of Vietnam would be handed over to a provisional administration after two years at the most and that general elections would be held in 1956 at the latest, giving Vietnam a single and united government. (due to American actions, the agreements were never put into place)”
    ― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
    tags: american-army, commandos, defence, freedom, french-army, liberation, nvasion, special-forces, strength, war
    167 likes

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    Karl Braungart
    “We work in the city of Würzburg, which is between Frankfurt and Nürnberg. Eric and I are in military intelligence.”
    ― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity
    tags: conspiracy, crime, espionage, military, mystery, suspense, suspicion, thriller
    40 likes

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    Max Nowaz
    “I’m fucking asking you!” The man stood his ground.
    From the corner of his eye Adam could see the other man getting up from his chair. It was time to go. Adam head-butted the first man who was blocking his way, and then kneed him in the groin for good measure. As the man doubled up, Adam pushed past him.”
    ― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky
    tags: action, adventure-books, fantasy, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, fiction, humour, magic, magical-realm, thriller
    409 likes

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    “Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this, Squadron Leader. It was our war, our victory and now it is our Berlin. We tolerate your presence in this city… if that.”
    ― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
    tags: army, battles, danger, destruction, life, secrets, spies, unrest, war
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    Charles Dowding
    “It’s incredible to reflect on how much knowledge and growth power is contained in seeds.”
    ― Charles Dowding
    tags: gardening, growth, harvest, harvesting, herb-gardening, knowledge, organic, vegetable, vegetable-garden
    40 likes



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