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    Sara Pascoe
    “I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “We had old architects and were working with what we had on hand. You’ve hired this new, young architect now, and, Pericles, I’m going to build you a statue of Athena—all gold and ivory, think of that, Pericles—and taller than our city walls.” Pericles raised his eyes toward the birds.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: ancient-greece, conflict, drama, educational, greek-gods, iction, insightful, love-story, romance, spartans
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    Therisa Peimer
    “Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, romance, sci-fi
    450 likes

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    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “They don't know what a stand up guy you are." 
    "Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
    ― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley
    tags: chosen-family, curiosity, hardship, intrigue, legend, loss, murder, nature, secrets, young-adult-fiction
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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: betrayal, emotions, friendship, honour, human-emotions, literary-novel, passion, relationships, tense, torment
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    Merlin Franco
    “Writing is a refuge. When the world betrays us, we authors find asylum in our literary realms. Our wordlandias are our revitalizing saunas.”
    ― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
    tags: author-quotes, rejuvenation-quotes, writers-inspirational, writers-on-writing, writers-world, writing-life
    44 likes

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    Diane Merrill Wigginton
    “Bringing her eyes down again, Catherine found herself gawking at Jake’s perfectly formed, muscular chest and stomach. She felt her cheeks flush when she he noticed that his towel was still parted, showing off a very lean, muscular leg.”
    ― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position
    tags: american-romance, curiosity, drama, hope, joy, love, romance, sadness, uplifting, women-s-adventure
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    “In order to survive her tumultuous childhood, Mary created another Fat Mary, a companion and consoler, who took away her hurts, fears, and questions and kept them safe until Mary was older and mature enough to process the abuse and neglect she had endured.”
    ― Maria Nhambu
    tags: autobiography, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, inspirational, over-coming-odds, psychological, self-love, survival
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    Milan Kundera
    “الكائن الانسانى ليس إلا شعـورًا بالوحـدة.”
    ― Milan Kundera, La festa dell'insignificanza
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    Greg Mortenson
    “the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.”
    ― Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
    tags: central-asia-institute, inspirational, middle-east
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    Nancy E. Turner
    “Education doesn't keep a person from being a fool, and the lack of it doesn't keep a person from being intelligent.”
    ― Nancy E. Turner
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    William L. Shirer
    “But they were now on that April morning determined to use them—the first time and the last in the history of the Third Reich that the Jews resisted their Nazi oppressors with arms.”
    ― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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