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    K. Ritz
    “Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
    ― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
    tags: adventure, drama, fantasy, fiction, humour, intrigue, literature, magic, mystery, sorcery
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    Merlin Franco
    “You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise is a decisive moment in every author’s life. Equate it to a photographer meeting his first old man with a wrinkled face or the old lady with heavy earrings dangling from her earlobes.”
    ― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker
    tags: asian-fetish, parody, quest, sarcasm-humor, satire-quotes, southeast-asia, travel-quotes, witty-funny, writers-quotes
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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
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    Lisa Kaniut Cobb
    “If he could blush through his fur, he would have.”
    ― Lisa Kaniut Cobb, Down in the Valley
    tags: action, animals, conflict, mountains, nature, pain, relationships, tense, violence, ya-fantasy
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    Max Nowaz
    “Ah! You speak Levitan,” the man smiled. “But you’re not from Levita I think.” Like
most Levitians he was a good looking man, if perhaps a bit effete for Brown’s tastes. 
“No, I lived there for a while.” 
“Did you enjoy your stay?”
“Up to a point. The Levitian women are very beautiful.”
“Yes of course. So are the men in Levita,” the man smiled. “We used to have a
cleansing programme to ensure a healthy population.”
“You mean a culling policy, where you killed all the weakest members of the
population.”
    ― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator
    tags: dark, dark-humour, drama, fiction, mystery, thriller
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    Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin
    “Forgiveness heals the forgiver, though not necessarily the forgiven.”
    ― Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin, Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures
    tags: ambition, climactic, emotionally-charged, excitement, explore, fight, kidnapping, kingdoms, love-triangle, power
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    Sara Pascoe
    “What’s “ague?”‘ Raya asked.
    ‘Malaria.’ Oscar said.
    ‘Oh, great.’
    ‘Hey, you want plague? They got that too.’ Raya ignored
    the cat.”
    ― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
    tags: adventure, children-s-paranormal, coming-of-age, coming-of-age-fiction, engaging, fantasy-adventure, fantasy-thriller, occult, supernatural, young-adult
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    Yvonne Korshak
    “As Aristocleia raised her cup to toast Xanthippus, her gown slipped from her shoulders, exquisite as Aphrodite’s, and flowed like the water that slid over her naked breasts when she allowed him to watch her bathe. It was wonderful to possess a gem of a woman. It made a man feel beautiful and godlike himself, briefly.”
    ― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
    tags: 5th-century-bc, action, drama, enchantment, entertaining, fiction, literary-fiction, love, romance
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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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    Barbara Sontheimer
    “Looking over the Ethan's bowed head, amidst the tangled forest of Wilderness littered with the bodies of men dead and dying, Victor saw the serene image of his mother.  She smiled at her son, her unbound black hair blowing wildly in the breeze.  She reached a hand out towards him, and this time, he went with her.”
    ― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
    tags: american-historical-romance, historical-romance, historical-victorian-romance, history, love, passion, romance, torment, victorian-romance
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    Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
    “In profound meditation, they found, when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of a separate ego disappears. In this state, the supreme climax of meditation, the seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change. They called it simply Atman, the Self.”
    ― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita
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    Anne Frank
    “Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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    Daniel Defoe
    “A True Born Englishman's a contradiction!
    In speech and irony, in fact a fiction”
    ― Daniel Defoe
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: poetry
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “My Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now, one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, "If this isn't nice, what is?"

    So I hope that you will do the same for the rest of your lives. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud, "If this isn't nice, what is?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
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    Charles Darwin
    “But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand - If it is to be done, it must be by studying Humboldt.”
    ― Charles Darwin
    tags: alexander-von-humboldt, claude-lorrain, delight, experience, forests, humboldt, imagination, nature, study, understanding
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