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    Susan Rowland
    “Mary stared at the dreamlike happenings on the page. Human figures faced each other; the man’s head was a golden ball with rays reaching up to huge stars and out to the distant mountains; the woman’s silver head was sickle-shaped and surrounded by birds like eagles with white beaks. Some of the black letters glowed because they had tips like tiny flames.”
    ― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
    tags: fiction-novel, murder, past-experiences, personal-relationships, power, psychological, tense, thriller
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    Michael Wyndham Thomas
    “Now I gazed out of my office window. Slowly the world was changing from old-gold to the deep purple which, in the words of that dreamy song Mum was fond of humming, bathes garden walls under the twinkle of starlight.”
    ― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows
    tags: childhood-memories, dark, death, drama, emotional, emotions, loss, memories, thriller
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    Steven Decker
    “Edward unlocked a drawer of his desk where he kept valuables, opened it, and withdrew the Buck knife Amelia had given him a few days after he’d turned eighteen, about a month before they were to be married. He stared straight ahead, feeling its weight in his hand. He looked down at the knife, opened it, and scraped his finger lightly across the blade. Still sharp. He had used it for only a month, but after Amelia left him at the altar, he stored it away, rarely touching it. Today, however, he wanted to remember the pain.”
    ― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live
    tags: bricklayer, endurance, enigmatic, fear, fiction, loss, puzzle, romance-fiction, suspense, trauma
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    K. Ritz
    “This evening I spied her in the back orchard. I decided to sacrifice one of my better old shirts and carried it out to her. The weather’s been warm of late. Buds on the apple trees are ready to burst. Usually by this time of the year, at that time of day, the back orchard is full of screaming children. Damut’s boys were the only two. They were on the terrace below her, running through the slanted sunlight, chasing each other around tree trunks. She stood above them, like a merlin watching rabbits play.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, antasy, drama, fiction, historical-fantasy, humour, literature, magic, mystery
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    Max Nowaz
    “He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
     ”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master
    tags: drama, fantasy, fast-paced, fiction, fictional, magical, realistic, suspense, thriller
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    Andri E. Elia
    “No one has the rights to summon you. Only Stardust. And that because she’s your mother and not the queen.”
    ― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand
    tags: chivalry, defence, empathetic, peace, relationships, romance, species, survival, threat, winged-humanoids
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    Alan Bradley
    “Before I started killing people, I like to think I was a fairly normal kid.”
    ― Alan Bradley
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    “Maybe that’s how it has to be. Maybe there is no diplomatic solution for this? Perhaps one of them has to die?”
    ― Cade Mengler, The Companions
    tags: action-adventure, curse, elven, journey, light, magical-land, perils, reality, strife, trauma
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    Michael Parker
    “It was odds on they would find out one of the team had escaped the blast, and it wouldn’t be long before they knew which one. Then they would come looking for him.
    And Conor intended they should find him.”
    ― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant
    tags: catholic, complexity, emotional, guilt, heart-wrenching, leverage, organised-crime, page-turner, threat, unstoppable
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
    tags: constitution, liberty, patriot, patriotism, rights, unalienable-rights
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    “Chapter 8”
    ― Robin Waterfield, Who Was Alexander the Great?
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    John Stuart Mill
    “The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.”
    ― John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
    tags: arts, leisure, music, philosophy, pleasure
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    Jasper Fforde
    “Somebody once said that the library is actually the dominant life form on the planet. Humans simply exist as the reproductive means to achieve more libraries.”
    ― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit
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    Eugene O'Neill
    “You're lying to yourself again. You wanted to get rid of them. Their contempt and disgust aren't pleasant company. You're glad they're gone.”
    ― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night
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    Rachel Caine
    “Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray."
    Oh. "You get me the nicest things."
    "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers”
    ― Rachel Caine, Fade Out
    tags: claire-danvers, morganville-vampires, presents, shane-collins
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