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    Sara Pascoe
    “When I'm hung-over I try to imagine being old and look- ing back fondly on now, on this bit I'm currently living, and how in retrospect it might seem adventurous. In the future when I only ever sit in a chair because I'm too gnarled for pleasure or movement I'll remember when I stayed out all night and had life-changing conversations and walked all the way home because I lost my phone.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Therisa Peimer
    “I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to stop.”
    ― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
    tags: adventure, drama, fiction, genetics, love, political, sci-fi, science-fiction, supremacist, war
    469 likes

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    K. Ritz
    “Mead.
    O sweet elixir,
    Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
     ”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: drama, dramatic, engaging, exciting, fantasy, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit
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    James Frey
    “There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”
    ― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible
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    Kate Chopin
    “I know I shall like it, like the feeling of freedom and independence.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening & Other Short Stories
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    Jeannette Walls
    “Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.”
    ― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
    tags: life-changing-events
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    Gabriel F.W. Koch
    “Tenderly he reached for her and lightly took her hand, lifted it, and touched it to his lips.”
    ― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood
    tags: action-fiction, destiny, engrossing, fear, honor, humans, irreversible-damage, literary-fiction, survival, unexpected
    147 likes

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  • #8
    “The violence of nature masks the beauty and joy that hide just beneath the surface.”
    ― Jack Borden, The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
    tags: avelyn, family-bonds, immersive, mythical-creatures, sacred-magic, self-discovery, strong-female-protagonist, sword-of-light, thrilling, ya-fantasy
    116 likes

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    Lesley Glaister
    “Neville's a pleasant sort of standby when there's nothing more exciting on the go. A safe, attractive, reliable chap. He's respectful, never having tried to get her into bed which, if she was a better sort of person, she might appreciate.”
    ― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man
    tags: consequences, death, deceit, hidden-truths, historical-intrigue, intricate-plot, sacrifice, tension, uncertainty, world-war
    24 likes

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    Sara Pascoe
    “It is weird that the same two parents can come together and make two such different people.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo
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    Kenneth Schmitt
    “Our experiences are all a result of our personal energy signature, which develops from our focus of attention. Once we realize this, we can create a world of light and love in our personal consciousness, which also flows into the consciousness of humanity and the entire cosmos.”
    ― Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
    tags: awareness, cosmos, energy-flow, photons, quantum-energy, quantum-entanglement, quantum-realm, space-and-time, subatomic-particles, unseen-energies
    350 likes

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    Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
    “How power is used in organizations determines whether it unites us with trust or divides us with fear”
    ― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
    tags: accountability, consultants, empowering, framework, human-resource, nurture, solutions, strategy, team-performance, workplace-culture
    185 likes

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    Kim Edwards
    “He liked that bones were solid things, surviving even the white heat of cremation. Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable.”
    ― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.”
    ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    “Islamic scholars developed a doctrine known as “abrogation” (an-Nasikh wa’l Mansukh), whereby Allah issues new revelations that supersede old ones.”
    ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: inspirational
    160 likes

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    Elizabeth George Speare
    “A sudden joyful hope sprang into Mart’s mind.”
    ― Elizabeth George Speare, The Sign of the Beaver
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  • #18
    Nancy E. Turner
    “How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?”
    ― Nancy E. Turner
    tags: age, conflicting, old, young
    8 likes



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