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“And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.”
― Donna Leon, Death in a Strange Country

tags: church, italy, venice

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“I taught my sons to be men. I don't care who they love. I care about how they act. The moment they stop having manners or treat someone poorly, then we'll have words. Other than that, I only want them to be happy, and if you make Kane happy, then all I have to say to ye is welcome to the family.”
― Rhys Ford, Sinner's Gin

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“People like my mom and Miki are like kites. They need the sky. They need the wind. Me and my dad? We’re the people holding the string. We’re their anchors to the earth. Miki and I can feel each other through the connection.”
― Rhys Ford, Sinner's Gin

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#4

“Sometimes, Miki, you’ve got to stop
building sand castles just to watch the ocean take
them away,” Kane murmured against his cheek.
“Sometimes, you just need to find someone to sit
on the beach with you.”
― Rhys Ford, Sinner's Gin

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#5

“walked onto the Delta, hoping to make myself a man, Cocky as shit, with my guitar in my hand. Walked past the Crossroads, paid the Devil no mind. He didn’t reach for me, saying I was already his kind. —Delta Spawn Blues”
― Rhys Ford, Sinner's Gin

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#6

“As Publilius Syrus said in the first century BC: Not every question deserves an answer.
Who the heck was Publilius Syrus?
Look up an encyclopaedia.”
― Joy Chambers, The Great Deception

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#7

“If you were to roam the world from the arctic goldfields of Kotzebue Sound to the pearl-fisheries of Thursday Island,’ wrote Lowell Thomas when he visited the region in the 1920s, ‘you could find no men more worthy of the title “desperado” than the Pushtuns who live among these jagged, saw-tooth mountains of the Afghan frontier.’

Elliot, Jason. Unexpected Light (p. 56). Pan Macmillan UK. Kindle Edition.”
― Jason Elliot, An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

tags: afghanistan, tribal, tribe

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#8

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#9

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: life

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#10

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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#11

“Sorka was filled with an exultation that was almost painful. My name is Faranth, Sorka!”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsdawn

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#12

“He yelped, ducked with an apprentice's well-developed instinct, and went pelting back the way he'd come.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

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#13

“A gitar for Menolly? So we can judge the range of sounds she can make?”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

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#14

“Oh, that was marvellous. Could we play it again?”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger

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#15

“Your initial mistake, my dear F’lar,” and the Harper’s voice was at its drollest, “was in providing salvation from the last imminent disaster in a scant three days by bringing up the Five Lost Weyrs. The Lord Holders really expect you to provide a second miracle in similar short order.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest

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#16

“Reading has not gone out of fashion in the last number of years, nor in the ones while you slept in the asteroid belt. Your relatives do not wish to expose themselves to deep thought, lest they be affected by it.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Death of Sleep

tags: books, critical-thinking, reading, thought

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#17

“Looking ahead is far more constructive than looking behind," said Robinton. He held his clenched fist up. "I'd all the facts in my grasp and I couldn't see the water for the waves.”
― Anne McCaffrey, The White Dragon

tags: awareness, dwelling-in-past, focus, future

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#18

“Queens can, too, fly,” she blurted out, daring him. His grin broadening to suffuse his face, he put his hands on her shoulders and gave her an affectionate shake. “Of course they can fly,” he assured her, his voice full of pride and respect. “That’s why they have wings!”
― Anne McCaffrey, The Dragonriders of Pern: Books 1-3

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#19

“Calum patted her shoulder and prayed to the Gods of Balanced Equations”
― Anne McCaffrey, Acorna's Quest

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#20

“A man convinced against his will, is of his own opinion still,’ ”
― Anne McCaffrey, To Ride Pegasus

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#21

“I speak of the skill of working together, the technique of crossing the arbitrary lines of land, craft, and status, because we must learn more from each other than the simple fact that none of us can stand alone and survive!”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest

tags: cooperation, learning, survival, working-together

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#22

“Everyone wants to be, in some way, unique, and can’t realize that being unique is a responsibility as well as a privilege. You can’t cure that. How”
― Anne McCaffrey, To Ride Pegasus

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#23

“for when speech is restricted, all men suffer,”
― Anne McCaffrey, All the Weyrs of Pern

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#24

“you ride a winged horse, you’d better have a wide net when you fall. And that takes money!”
― Anne McCaffrey, To Ride Pegasus: (The Talents: Book 1): an astonishing and enthralling fantasy from one of the most influential fantasy and SF novelists of her generation

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#25

“Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. But ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest

tags: courage, dragonquest, history

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#26

“Whales might not lie, but like anybody else, Sean suspected they probably wanted to put the best spin they could on an error in judgment when called to account for their actions.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Maelstrom

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#27

“In the lake, in the center, the stars were mirrored.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest

tags: awareness, beauty, night

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#28

“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

tags: anne-rice, death, deserved, hell, karma, lestat, lestat-de-lioncourt, louis, punishment, remorse, vampire

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#29

“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”
― Anne Rice, Blood And Gold

tags: anne-rice, blood-and-gold, curse, gift, memory, remembering, thorne, vampire-chronicles, vampires

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#30

“I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.”
― Anne Rice

tags: anne-rice, horror, vampire

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